On this day in Boston Celtics history, the storied franchise signed big man Brett Leon Szabo in 1996. Szabo was a native of Postville, Iowa who was a multi-sport athlete playing golf and baseball on top of basketball. He played his college basketball with the Division II Augustana College Vikings of Sioux City, Iowa, where he won All-North Central Conference (NCC) honors two seasons in a row in 1989 and 1990.
Szabo went unselected in the 1991 NBA draft and ended up signing a camp deal with the Charlotte Hornets several years later in 1994 before being waived by that team several weeks later.