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Tim Bontemps picks Red Auerbach at #4 which more or less turns this into a top 9 Celtics players of all-time. And then he picks Danny Ainge at #10, so that makes it really a top 8 Celtics players of all-time.

Would personally have preferred for Bontempts to have stuck with a list based on playing days only like Andrew Lopez did. And if he was going to include other stuff than I think he should have gone with Tommy Heinsohn instead of Ainge.

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