{"id":1526446,"date":"2022-08-26T11:59:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T15:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1526446"},"modified":"2022-08-26T11:59:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T15:59:23","slug":"bob-mcadoo-played-just-20-games-for-the-boston-celtics-but-his-value-to-the-team-was-sky-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/bob-mcadoo-played-just-20-games-for-the-boston-celtics-but-his-value-to-the-team-was-sky-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob McAdoo Played Just 20 Games for the Boston Celtics, but His Value to the Team Was Sky High"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

High-scoring Bob McAdoo played a total of 637 minutes during his 20-game stint with the Boston Celtics<\/a> during the 1978-79 season. He put up big numbers, averaging 20.6 points and 7.1 rebounds, but by the start of the 1979-80 season, he was gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While McAdoo, a Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer, lit up the scoreboard in his short time with the Celtics, Boston finished the season 29-53. His real value came after those 20 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bob McAdoo didn't want to play for the Boston Celtics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Danny Ainge of the Boston Celtics guards Bob McAdoo of the Los Angeles Lakers during an NBA basketball game circa 1985 at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. | Focus on Sport\/Getty Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McAdoo was a three-time NBA scoring champion, a five-time All-Star, and a two-time champion. He was in his third season with the New York Knicks when he found out he had been traded. Strangely, it wasn't the team that initially let him know he was on the way out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I got traded right at the trading deadline,” McAdoo said on the Showtime With Coop<\/a><\/em> podcast in 2020, hosted by former Los Angeles Lakers guard Michael Cooper.<\/a> “I found out from Michael Ray Richardson. Michael Ray Richardson came over to my house about six o'clock in the morning because he was out and about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“He said, ‘Mac, I heard you got traded.' I come to the door rubbing my eyes and stuff, and I'm like what are you talking about? He said, ‘I heard you got traded.' <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I said, ‘Go down my driveway and get my newspaper.' I went down to get my newspaper, my New York Times, opened it up, and saw I got traded. The Knicks hadn't even called me or told me anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I didn't want to go to Boston. I was hated in Boston, and I hated Boston myself. Back in the 70s, all the Black players knew that Boston was a graveyard for Black players.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McAdoo's real value to the Celtics came off the court<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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People don\u2019t talk enough nowadays about Bob McAdoo. Absolute stud. pic.twitter.com\/CIy3m2G7Os<\/a><\/p>— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) May 3, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>