{"id":235890,"date":"2026-03-25T14:29:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/235890\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:29:19","slug":"every-cal-state-long-beach-player-drafted-by-the-boston-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/235890\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Cal State Long Beach player drafted by the Boston Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Boston Celtics have built their teams in a number of ways over the decades, but few if any methods have born more fruit than through the NBA draft. The best players to suit up for the Celtics have, by and large, come to Boston either through being taken directly in the annual event, or via trades made that night.<\/p>\n

And it is not just the top stars who have been picked up by the Celtics via the draft. Countless members of the storied ball club’s alumni have been taken by the team, and some schools are better represented than others. We can see blue blood programs and some very small schools both delivering top talent to Boston’s rosters over the years, so we decided to take a look at which players came from which schools overall.<\/p>\n

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So without further ado, let’s take a look at every player who has been drafted by the Celtics out of Cal State Long Beach.<\/p>\n

Nate Stephens – center\"Oct<\/p>\n

Oct 18, 2022; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; The number 6 is seen on the Boston Celtics jersey honoring Celtic great Bill Russell during the third quarter of the game between the Boston Celtics and the Philadelphia 76ers at TD Garden. Mandatory Credit: Winslow Townson-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n

Draft year and position: fourth round (14th pick, 61st overall), 1972 NBA Draft<\/p>\n

Seasons at Cal State Long Beach: two<\/p>\n

Seasons played with Celtics: did not make the team<\/p>\n

Lamont King – guard\"Oct<\/p>\n

Oct 18, 2022; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; The number 6 is seen on the Boston Celtics jersey honoring Celtic great Bill Russell during the third quarter of the game between the Boston Celtics and the Philadelphia 76ers at TD Garden. Mandatory Credit: Winslow Townson-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n

Draft year and position: seventh round (fourth pick, 206th overall), 1973 NBA Draft<\/p>\n

Seasons at Cal State Long Beach: two<\/p>\n

Seasons played with Celtics: did not make the team<\/p>\n

Roscoe Pondexter – forward\"Oct<\/p>\n

Oct 18, 2022; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; The number 6 is seen on the Boston Celtics jersey honoring Celtic great Bill Russell during the third quarter of the game between the Boston Celtics and the Philadelphia 76ers at TD Garden. Mandatory Credit: Winslow Townson-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n

Draft year and position: third round (17th pick, 53rd overall), 1974 NBA Draft<\/p>\n

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Seasons at Cal State Long Beach: two<\/p>\n

Seasons played with Celtics: did not make the team<\/p>\n

Glenn McDonald – forward\"Glenn<\/p>\n

Glenn McDonald at Celtics alumni recognition ceremony<\/p>\n

Draft year and position:<\/p>\n

Seasons at Cal State Long Beach: two<\/p>\n

Seasons played with Celtics: two<\/p>\n

All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on Celtics Wire: Every Cal State Long Beach player drafted by the Celtics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Celtics have built their teams in a number of ways over the decades, but few if…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[16326,10760,131,133,132,129],"class_list":["post-235890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-boston-celtics","tag-cal-state-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}