On this day in Boston Celtics history, former Boston big man Robert “Bob” Anderson Harris was born in Linden, Tennessee in 1927.
Harris played his NCAA ball with the Oklahoma State Cowboys, where he was selected to the NCAA AP All-American second team in 1949. He would be drafted by the (then) Fort Wayne (now, Detroit) Pistons with the third overall pick of the Basketball Association of America (BAA — a precursor league to the NBA) draft that same year, and play parts of two seasons with the Pistons before being traded to the Celtics in 1950 for forward Dick Mehen.
Harris would play four seasons with Boston, where he averaged 6.7 points, 7.1 rebounds and 1.5 assists.
