Today, February 1st marks the 43rd anniversary of the birth of former Boston Celtics forward (and current assistant coach) Walter McCarty.
McCarty, selected 19th in the 1996 NBA Draft by the New York Knicks, played 35 games there before being traded to the Celtics in October of 1997. He would play in Beantown for eight seasons, the last of which saw him traded to the Phoenix Suns, his second-to-last stop before leaving the league as a player (he would play 36 more games his final season - 2005/06 - for the Los Angeles Clippers).