On this day in 1996, former Boston Celtics big man Brett Szabo signed with the team as an unrestricted free agent.
Szabo — a native of Postville, Iowa — 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 would go undrafted in the 1991 NBA Draft, and sign a camp deal with the Charlotte Hornets before being waived by that team. The Iowan would bounce around the Continental Basketball Association and overseas before landing a shot with the Celtics, for whom he would play one season.
Brett Szabo. 0.4 win shares, four times as many as Brett Vroman. pic.twitter.com/bUURgPoINa
— Brett Mauser (@SlicedBrett) June 8, 2020
The center would appear in 70 games for the franchise in the 1996-97 NBA season, putting up an average of 2.2 points and 2.4 rebounds per game in 9.5 minutes of playing time.
It would be both his first and last stop in the NBA, making one more camp deal with the Philadelphia 76ers the following fall, but did not make the team.
