It is increasingly rare for a player to spend a significant portion of their career with one team never mind the bulk or even all of it in the modern NBA, but throughout the course of NBA history, few teams have done a better job at retaining their stars than the Boston Celtics.
In an era where their institutional coherence was in itself an advantage over many teams in the league, a host of Celtics lifers spent all of (or very nearly so) their careers in green and white — and given they were racking up titles at an unprecedented rate in the 1960s onward, it is understandable why they were loathe to leave.
But who were the Celtics who played the most seasons with the franchise across its storied history? Let’s take a look at the players who were part of the team for the most seasons below.
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