Boston Celtics

Every NBA player the encyclopedia attributes to the Boston Celticsfrom profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth.

Every position room Boston Celtics has passed down, steadiest first. The SF/SG room is their most stable — 4 holders across 44 years, a new one every 11 on average.

1. SF/SG4 holders · 3 handoffs · 1951–1994 · one every 11y
   Chuck Cooper1951–1954→Frank Ramsey1955–1964→John Havlicek1963–1978→Kevin Gamble1989–1994
2. SF6 holders · 5 handoffs · 1956–2020 · one every 10.8y
   Jim Loscutoff1956–1964→Don Nelson1966–1976→Cedric Maxwell1978–1985→M. L. Carr1980–1985→Paul Pierce2002–2013→Gordon Hayward2018–2020
3. PF/C5 holders · 4 handoffs · 1951–1997 · one every 9.4y
   Bob Harris1951–1954→Bob Brannum1952–1955→Jack Nichols1954–1958→Steve Kuberski1970–1978→Dino Rađa1994–1997
4. SG/PG2 holders · 1 handoff · 1973–1989 · one every 8.5y
   Paul Westphal1973–1975→Danny Ainge1982–1989
5. PG/SG2 holders · 1 handoff · 1976–1990 · one every 7.5y
   Charlie Scott1976–1978→Dennis Johnson1984–1990
6. SF/PF4 holders · 3 handoffs · 1967–1995 · one every 7.3y
   Bailey Howell1967–1970→Larry Bird1980–1992→Ed Pinckney1989–1994→Xavier McDaniel1993–1995

+6 more rooms with a shorter average hold.

Room tenures, not starting jobs — the corpus has no per-season depth chart, so holders can overlap (a successor often arrives before his predecessor leaves) and the measure is how often the room changed hands. A holder is a player who produced real value for this club during his years here, which is what separates holding the room from being on the roster. Detected from per-season VAL (1951–2026 here; league coverage is complete from 1999) — rooms the corpus cannot value are not shown.