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1984-85 Boston Celtics Roster and Stats

Previous Season

Record: 63-19, Finished 1st in NBA Atlantic Division

Coach: K.C. Jones (63-19)

Executive: Jan Volk

PTS/G: 114.8 (6th of 23) Opp PTS/G: 108.1 (5th of 23)

SRS: 6.46 (3rd of 23) Pace: 101.6 (13th of 23)

Off Rtg: 112.8 (2nd of 23) Def Rtg: 106.3 (5th of 23) Net Rtg: +6.5 (3rd of 23)

Expected W-L: 57-25 (3rd of 23)

Preseason Odds: Championship +200

Arena: Boston Garden Attendance: 610,547 (3rd of 23)

NBA 1985 Playoffs:
Won NBA Eastern Conference First Round (3-1) versus Cleveland Cavaliers (Series Stats)
Won NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals (4-2) versus Detroit Pistons (Series Stats)
Won NBA Eastern Conference Finals (4-1) versus Philadelphia 76ers (Series Stats)
Lost NBA Finals (2-4) versus Los Angeles Lakers (Series Stats)

Eastern Conference Champions
Atlantic Div Champs

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Recent Game Results

Height of bar is margin of victory • Mouseover bar for details • Click for box score • Grouped by Month

Roster

Roster Table
No.	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt	Birth Date	Birth	Exp	College
44	Danny Ainge	SG	6-5	185	March 17, 1959	us US	3	BYU
33	Larry Bird	SF	6-9	220	December 7, 1956	us US	5	Indiana State University
28	Quinn Buckner	PG	6-3	190	August 20, 1954	us US	8	Indiana
34	Rick Carlisle	SG	6-5	210	October 27, 1959	us US	R	University of Maine, Virginia
30	M.L. Carr	SF	6-6	205	January 9, 1951	us US	9	Guilford College
40	Carlos Clark	SG	6-4	210	August 10, 1960	us US	1	Ole Miss
3	Dennis Johnson	PG	6-4	185	September 18, 1954	us US	8	Pepperdine
50	Greg Kite	C	6-11	250	August 5, 1961	us US	1	BYU
31	Cedric Maxwell	SF	6-8	205	November 21, 1955	us US	7	UNC Charlotte
32	Kevin McHale	PF	6-10	210	December 19, 1957	us US	4	Minnesota
00	Robert Parish	C	7-1	230	August 30, 1953	us US	8	Centenary (LA)
8	Scott Wedman	SF	6-7	215	July 29, 1952	us US	10	Colorado
20	Ray Williams	PG	6-3	188	October 14, 1954	us US	7	Minnesota

Assistant Coaches and Staff

Team and Opponent Stats

Ranks are per game (except for MP, which are total) and sorted descending (except for TOV and PF); opponents ranked are flipped; year/year calculations are also per game

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Team Misc

Per Game

Per Game Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Larry Bird	28	80	77	39.5	11.5	22.0	.522	0.7	1.6	.427	10.8	20.4	.529	.538	5.0	5.7	.882	2.1	8.5	10.5	6.6	1.6	1.2	3.1	2.6	28.7
2	Dennis Johnson	30	80	77	37.2	6.2	13.3	.462	0.1	0.3	.269	6.1	13.0	.467	.466	3.3	3.8	.853	1.1	2.8	4.0	6.8	1.2	0.5	2.7	2.8	15.7
3	Robert Parish	31	79	78	36.1	7.0	12.9	.542	0.0	0.0		7.0	12.9	.542	.542	3.7	5.0	.743	3.3	7.3	10.6	1.6	0.7	1.3	2.4	2.8	17.6
4	Danny Ainge	25	75	73	34.2	5.6	10.6	.529	0.2	0.7	.268	5.4	9.8	.549	.539	1.6	1.8	.868	1.0	2.6	3.6	5.3	1.6	0.1	2.0	3.0	12.9
5	Kevin McHale	27	79	31	33.6	7.7	13.4	.570	0.0	0.1	.000	7.7	13.4	.573	.570	4.5	5.9	.760	2.9	6.1	9.0	1.8	0.4	1.5	2.0	3.0	19.8
6	Cedric Maxwell	29	57	51	26.2	3.5	6.6	.533	0.0	0.0	.000	3.5	6.6	.536	.533	4.1	4.9	.831	1.7	2.5	4.2	1.8	0.6	0.3	1.7	2.5	11.1
7	Ray Williams	30	23	5	20.0	2.4	6.2	.385	0.3	1.0	.261	2.1	5.2	.408	.406	1.3	2.0	.674	0.7	1.8	2.5	3.9	1.3	0.2	1.8	2.4	6.4
8	Scott Wedman	32	78	5	14.4	2.8	5.9	.478	0.2	0.4	.500	2.6	5.5	.477	.497	0.5	0.7	.764	0.7	1.3	2.0	1.2	0.3	0.1	0.6	1.4	6.4
9	Quinn Buckner	30	75	6	11.4	1.0	2.6	.383	0.0	0.0	.000	1.0	2.6	.385	.383	0.4	0.7	.640	0.3	0.8	1.2	2.0	0.8	0.0	0.9	1.9	2.4
10	Carlos Clark	24	62	3	9.1	1.0	2.5	.421	0.0	0.1	.000	1.0	2.4	.435	.421	0.7	0.9	.774	0.5	0.6	1.1	0.8	0.6	0.0	0.7	1.1	2.7
11	M.L. Carr	34	47	0	8.4	1.3	3.2	.416	0.2	0.5	.391	1.1	2.7	.421	.446	0.4	0.4	1.000	0.4	0.5	0.9	0.5	0.4	0.1	0.5	0.9	3.2
12	Greg Kite	23	55	4	7.7	0.6	1.6	.375	0.0	0.0		0.6	1.6	.375	.375	0.4	0.6	.688	0.7	0.9	1.6	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.5	1.5	1.6
13	Rick Carlisle	25	38	0	4.7	0.7	1.8	.388	0.0	0.1	.000	0.7	1.7	.400	.388	0.4	0.4	.882	0.2	0.3	0.6	0.7	0.1	0.0	0.5	0.6	1.8

Per Game Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Larry Bird	28	20	20	40.8	9.8	21.3	.461	0.4	1.3	.280	9.5	20.0	.473	.469	6.1	6.8	.890	2.7	6.5	9.1	5.8	1.7	1.0	2.9	2.7	26.0
2	Dennis Johnson	30	21	21	40.4	6.8	15.2	.445	0.0	0.7	.000	6.8	14.5	.466	.445	3.8	4.4	.860	1.1	2.9	4.0	7.3	1.5	0.4	3.4	3.1	17.3
3	Kevin McHale	27	21	21	39.9	8.2	14.4	.568	0.0	0.0		8.2	14.4	.568	.568	5.8	7.1	.807	3.5	6.4	9.9	1.5	0.6	2.2	2.9	3.5	22.1
4	Robert Parish	31	21	21	38.2	6.5	13.1	.493	0.0	0.0		6.5	13.1	.493	.493	4.1	5.3	.784	2.7	7.7	10.4	1.5	1.0	1.6	2.4	3.2	17.1
5	Danny Ainge	25	21	21	32.7	4.6	9.9	.466	0.3	0.8	.438	4.3	9.1	.469	.483	1.4	1.9	.769	1.0	1.8	2.8	5.8	1.5	0.0	1.5	3.6	11.0
6	Scott Wedman	32	21	1	16.7	3.5	6.4	.545	0.5	1.0	.455	3.0	5.3	.563	.582	1.2	1.8	.684	1.0	1.8	2.8	1.6	0.6	0.0	0.6	2.4	8.7
7	Ray Williams	30	19	0	14.6	2.5	6.1	.405	0.1	0.8	.133	2.4	5.3	.446	.414	1.3	1.3	.960	0.7	1.2	1.9	3.2	0.6	0.1	1.7	2.3	6.3
8	Cedric Maxwell	29	20	0	11.9	1.1	2.2	.488	0.0	0.0		1.1	2.2	.488	.488	1.7	2.2	.791	0.9	1.5	2.4	0.4	0.5	0.1	0.5	1.5	3.8
9	Greg Kite	23	9	0	7.0	0.6	1.3	.417	0.0	0.0		0.6	1.3	.417	.417	0.1	0.2	.500	0.6	1.2	1.8	0.3	0.1	0.0	0.2	1.4	1.2
10	Quinn Buckner	30	15	0	5.7	0.9	1.5	.591	0.0	0.0		0.9	1.5	.591	.591	0.3	0.5	.625	0.1	0.3	0.5	0.8	0.4	0.0	0.4	1.6	2.1
11	Carlos Clark	24	3	0	3.7	1.0	1.7	.600	0.0	0.0		1.0	1.7	.600	.600	0.7	0.7	1.000	0.7	0.0	0.7	1.0	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.7	2.7
12	M.L. Carr	34	7	0	3.4	0.6	2.1	.267	0.1	0.3	.500	0.4	1.9	.231	.300	0.0	0.0		0.1	0.1	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.6	1.3

Totals

Totals Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Larry Bird	28	80	77	3161	918	1760	.522	56	131	.427	862	1629	.529	.538	403	457	.882	164	678	842	531	129	98	248	208	2295
2	Dennis Johnson	30	80	77	2976	493	1066	.462	7	26	.269	486	1040	.467	.466	261	306	.853	91	226	317	543	96	39	212	224	1254
3	Robert Parish	31	79	78	2850	551	1016	.542	0	0		551	1016	.542	.542	292	393	.743	263	577	840	125	56	101	186	223	1394
4	Kevin McHale	27	79	31	2653	605	1062	.570	0	6	.000	605	1056	.573	.570	355	467	.760	229	483	712	141	28	120	157	234	1565
5	Danny Ainge	25	75	73	2564	419	792	.529	15	56	.268	404	736	.549	.539	118	136	.868	76	192	268	399	122	6	149	228	971
6	Cedric Maxwell	29	57	51	1495	201	377	.533	0	2	.000	201	375	.536	.533	231	278	.831	98	144	242	102	36	15	98	140	633
7	Scott Wedman	32	78	5	1127	220	460	.478	17	34	.500	203	426	.477	.497	42	55	.764	57	102	159	94	23	10	47	111	499
8	Quinn Buckner	30	75	6	858	74	193	.383	0	1	.000	74	192	.385	.383	32	50	.640	26	61	87	148	63	2	67	142	180
9	Carlos Clark	24	62	3	562	64	152	.421	0	5	.000	64	147	.435	.421	41	53	.774	29	40	69	48	35	2	42	66	169
10	Ray Williams	30	23	5	459	55	143	.385	6	23	.261	49	120	.408	.406	31	46	.674	16	41	57	90	30	5	42	56	147
11	Greg Kite	23	55	4	424	33	88	.375	0	0		33	88	.375	.375	22	32	.688	38	51	89	17	3	10	29	84	88
12	M.L. Carr	34	47	0	397	62	149	.416	9	23	.391	53	126	.421	.446	17	17	1.000	21	22	43	24	21	6	24	44	150
13	Rick Carlisle	25	38	0	179	26	67	.388	0	2	.000	26	65	.400	.388	15	17	.882	8	13	21	25	3	0	19	21	67
			82		19705	3721	7325	.508	110	309	.356	3611	7016	.515	.515	1860	2307	.806	1116	2630	3746	2287	645	414	1332	1781	9412

Totals Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Dennis Johnson	30	21	21	848	142	319	.445	0	14	.000	142	305	.466	.445	80	93	.860	24	60	84	154	31	9	72	66	364
2	Kevin McHale	27	21	21	837	172	303	.568	0	0		172	303	.568	.568	121	150	.807	74	134	208	32	13	46	60	73	465
3	Larry Bird	28	20	20	815	196	425	.461	7	25	.280	189	400	.473	.469	121	136	.890	53	129	182	115	34	19	57	54	520
4	Robert Parish	31	21	21	803	136	276	.493	0	0		136	276	.493	.493	87	111	.784	57	162	219	31	21	34	50	68	359
5	Danny Ainge	25	21	21	687	97	208	.466	7	16	.438	90	192	.469	.483	30	39	.769	20	38	58	121	32	1	32	76	231
6	Scott Wedman	32	21	1	350	73	134	.545	10	22	.455	63	112	.563	.582	26	38	.684	22	37	59	33	13	0	12	50	182
7	Ray Williams	30	19	0	278	47	116	.405	2	15	.133	45	101	.446	.414	24	25	.960	14	22	36	60	12	1	33	44	120
8	Cedric Maxwell	29	20	0	238	21	43	.488	0	0		21	43	.488	.488	34	43	.791	17	30	47	7	9	2	10	29	76
9	Quinn Buckner	30	15	0	86	13	22	.591	0	0		13	22	.591	.591	5	8	.625	2	5	7	12	6	0	6	24	31
10	Greg Kite	23	9	0	63	5	12	.417	0	0		5	12	.417	.417	1	2	.500	5	11	16	3	1	0	2	13	11
11	M.L. Carr	34	7	0	24	4	15	.267	1	2	.500	3	13	.231	.300	0	0		1	1	2	1	1	0	1	4	9
12	Carlos Clark	24	3	0	11	3	5	.600	0	0		3	5	.600	.600	2	2	1.000	2	0	2	3	1	0	0	2	8

Advanced

Advanced Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%		OWS	DWS	WS	WS/48		OBPM	DBPM	BPM	VORP
1	Larry Bird	28	80	3161	26.5	.585	.074	.260	6.0	22.6	14.7	25.7	1.9	1.7	11.2	28.5		10.5	5.2	15.7	.238		6.8	2.0	8.8	8.7
2	Dennis Johnson	30	80	2976	14.4	.522	.024	.287	3.5	8.0	5.9	23.4	1.5	0.7	15.0	19.3		3.5	2.8	6.4	.103		0.4	0.0	0.3	1.8
3	Robert Parish	31	79	2850	17.6	.586	.000	.387	10.7	21.4	16.3	5.8	0.9	1.9	13.5	19.7		5.0	4.0	9.0	.151		1.1	-0.3	0.8	2.0
4	Kevin McHale	27	79	2653	20.7	.617	.006	.440	10.0	19.2	14.8	7.4	0.5	2.4	11.0	21.9		7.6	3.4	11.0	.199		2.7	-0.2	2.5	3.0
5	Danny Ainge	25	75	2564	14.2	.570	.071	.172	3.4	7.9	5.8	19.9	2.2	0.1	14.9	15.9		3.9	2.8	6.6	.124		-0.1	0.8	0.7	1.8
6	Cedric Maxwell	29	57	1495	14.2	.634	.005	.737	7.6	10.2	8.9	8.4	1.1	0.5	16.4	16.3		3.2	1.4	4.6	.147		0.8	-0.3	0.5	0.9
7	Scott Wedman	32	78	1127	12.7	.515	.074	.120	5.9	9.5	7.8	11.1	1.0	0.5	8.8	19.2		1.2	1.0	2.2	.093		-0.4	-0.9	-1.2	0.2
8	Quinn Buckner	30	75	858	7.5	.419	.005	.259	3.5	7.5	5.6	20.1	3.5	0.1	23.8	13.4		-0.7	1.2	0.5	.027		-5.2	2.0	-3.1	-0.3
9	Carlos Clark	24	62	562	8.9	.482	.033	.349	6.0	7.5	6.8	10.3	2.9	0.2	19.3	15.8		-0.2	0.7	0.5	.044		-3.5	1.3	-2.2	0.0
10	Ray Williams	30	23	459	10.9	.450	.161	.322	4.0	9.4	6.9	23.8	3.1	0.6	20.5	18.2		-0.2	0.6	0.4	.042		-2.8	1.2	-1.6	0.1
11	Greg Kite	23	55	424	3.9	.431	.000	.364	10.4	12.7	11.6	4.6	0.3	1.3	22.1	12.6		-0.3	0.4	0.1	.006		-6.2	-1.3	-7.5	-0.6
12	M.L. Carr	34	47	397	9.9	.479	.154	.114	6.1	5.8	6.0	7.7	2.5	0.8	13.3	18.5		0.0	0.5	0.4	.050		-2.5	0.0	-2.5	-0.1
13	Rick Carlisle	25	38	179	7.2	.450	.030	.254	5.2	7.7	6.5	17.5	0.8	0.0	20.3	21.3		-0.2	0.1	-0.1	-0.021		-5.2	-2.3	-7.5	-0.3

Advanced Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%		OWS	DWS	WS	WS/48		OBPM	DBPM	BPM	VORP
1	Dennis Johnson	30	21	848	12.8	.506	.044	.292	3.2	7.8	5.5	24.7	1.7	0.6	16.7	20.5		0.2	0.8	1.0	.056		0.1	0.1	0.2	0.5
2	Kevin McHale	27	21	837	18.7	.630	.000	.495	9.9	17.7	13.8	5.5	0.7	3.0	14.0	20.7		1.8	1.0	2.8	.163		2.5	0.4	2.9	1.0
3	Larry Bird	28	20	815	20.9	.536	.059	.320	7.3	17.5	12.4	21.3	2.0	1.3	10.5	26.8		1.5	1.1	2.6	.155		5.2	0.8	6.0	1.7
4	Robert Parish	31	21	803	14.9	.553	.000	.402	8.0	22.2	15.2	5.3	1.2	2.3	13.3	18.8		0.6	1.2	1.8	.109		0.3	0.4	0.7	0.5
5	Danny Ainge	25	21	687	12.0	.513	.077	.188	3.3	6.1	4.7	23.2	2.2	0.1	12.4	15.1		0.7	0.7	1.3	.092		-0.4	1.1	0.7	0.5
6	Scott Wedman	32	21	350	17.0	.604	.164	.284	7.0	11.7	9.4	13.6	1.8	0.0	7.4	18.7		0.9	0.4	1.3	.172		2.4	1.5	3.9	0.5
7	Ray Williams	30	19	278	10.9	.472	.129	.216	5.6	8.7	7.2	29.5	2.0	0.2	20.6	23.2		-0.2	0.3	0.1	.011		-2.3	0.1	-2.1	0.0
8	Cedric Maxwell	29	20	238	11.4	.614	.000	1.000	8.0	13.9	11.0	3.6	1.8	0.5	13.9	12.2		0.4	0.3	0.6	.131		-0.8	0.3	-0.4	0.1
9	Quinn Buckner	30	15	86	10.3	.607	.000	.364	2.6	6.4	4.5	18.6	3.3	0.0	19.0	14.8		0.1	0.1	0.2	.104		-5.0	3.3	-1.7	0.0
10	Greg Kite	23	9	63	5.0	.427	.000	.167	8.9	19.3	14.1	5.8	0.7	0.0	13.4	9.5		0.0	0.1	0.1	.045		-4.8	0.1	-4.7	0.0
11	M.L. Carr	34	7	24	-0.1	.300	.133	.000	4.7	4.6	4.6	5.7	2.0	0.0	6.3	26.9		-0.1	0.0	-0.1	-0.163		-9.3	-3.7	-13.0	-0.1
12	Carlos Clark	24	3	11	35.4	.680	.000	.400	20.4	0.0	10.1	43.4	4.3	0.0	0.0	21.5		0.1	0.0	0.1	.478		9.6	6.4	16.0	0.1

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