1981-82 Boston Celtics Statistics
Team Record: 63-19
Finishing 1st in the NBA's Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference
Postseason: 7-5 Lost conference finals
Conference Semifinals - Defeated Washington Bullets 4-1
Conference Finals - Lost to Philadelphia 76ers 4-3
Coach: Bill Fitch (63-19)
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Attendance: 622,711, Avg. 15,188 in 41 home dates
1981-82 Boston Celtics Results
The Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association ended the 1981-82 season with a record of 63 wins and 19 losses, finishing first in the NBA's Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. The team compiled a postseason mark of 7-5.
The Celtics scored 9,180 points and conceded 8,657. Larry Bird tossed in a team-best 1,761 points for Boston, while Robert Parish netted 18 or more per game, too. Robert Parish contributed 866 boards. Nate Archibald dished out 541 assists for the squad.
On the defensive side of the ball, Larry Bird added 143 steals, and Robert Parish blocked 192 shots.
Bill Fitch coached the team. The 1981-82 Boston Celtics lost in the conference finals.
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Player Totals:
Player | Pos | GP | GS | Min | FGA | FGM | 3PA | 3PM | FTA | FTM | Off | Def | Reb | Ast | Stl | Blk | TO | PF | Pts |
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Larry Bird | F-G | 77 | 58 | 2923 | 1414 | 711 | 52 | 11 | 380 | 328 | 200 | 637 | 837 | 447 | 143 | 66 | 254 | 244 | 1761 |
Robert Parish | C | 80 | 78 | 2534 | 1235 | 669 | 0 | 0 | 355 | 252 | 288 | 578 | 866 | 140 | 68 | 192 | 221 | 267 | 1590 |
Cedric Maxwell | F | 78 | 74 | 2590 | 724 | 397 | 3 | 0 | 478 | 357 | 218 | 281 | 499 | 183 | 79 | 49 | 174 | 263 | 1151 |
Kevin McHale | F-C | 82 | 32 | 2332 | 875 | 465 | 0 | 0 | 248 | 187 | 191 | 365 | 556 | 91 | 30 | 185 | 137 | 264 | 1117 |
Nate Archibald | G | 68 | 0 | 2167 | 652 | 308 | 16 | 6 | 316 | 236 | 25 | 91 | 116 | 541 | 52 | 3 | 178 | 131 | 858 |
Gerald Henderson | G | 82 | 31 | 1844 | 705 | 353 | 12 | 2 | 172 | 125 | 47 | 105 | 152 | 252 | 82 | 11 | 150 | 199 | 833 |
M.L. Carr | F-G | 56 | 27 | 1296 | 409 | 184 | 17 | 5 | 116 | 82 | 56 | 94 | 150 | 128 | 67 | 21 | 63 | 136 | 455 |
Rick Robey | C-F | 80 | 4 | 1186 | 375 | 185 | 2 | 0 | 157 | 84 | 114 | 181 | 295 | 68 | 27 | 14 | 92 | 183 | 454 |
Chris Ford | G-F | 76 | 53 | 1591 | 450 | 188 | 63 | 20 | 56 | 39 | 52 | 56 | 108 | 142 | 42 | 10 | 52 | 143 | 435 |
Danny Ainge | G-F | 53 | 1 | 564 | 221 | 79 | 17 | 5 | 65 | 56 | 25 | 31 | 56 | 87 | 37 | 3 | 53 | 86 | 219 |
Charles Bradley | G | 51 | 1 | 339 | 122 | 55 | 1 | 0 | 62 | 42 | 12 | 26 | 38 | 22 | 14 | 6 | 37 | 61 | 152 |
Terry Duerod | G | 21 | 0 | 146 | 77 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 72 |
Eric Fernsten | C-F | 43 | 0 | 202 | 49 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 19 | 12 | 30 | 42 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 23 | 57 |
Tracy Jackson | G-F | 11 | 0 | 66 | 26 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 26 |
Totals | 858 | 359 | 19780 | 7334 | 3657 | 184 | 49 | 2457 | 1817 | 1253 | 2489 | 3742 | 2126 | 652 | 568 | 1432 | 2014 | 9180 |
Player Averages:
Player | Pos | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | Off | Def | Reb | Ast | Stl | Blk | TO | PF | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Larry Bird | F-G | 77 | 58 | 38.0 | 50.3 | 21.2 | 86.3 | 2.6 | 8.3 | 10.9 | 5.8 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 22.9 |
Robert Parish | C | 80 | 78 | 31.7 | 54.2 | 71.0 | 3.6 | 7.2 | 10.8 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 2.4 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 19.9 | |
Cedric Maxwell | F | 78 | 74 | 33.2 | 54.8 | 0.0 | 74.7 | 2.8 | 3.6 | 6.4 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 2.2 | 3.4 | 14.8 |
Kevin McHale | F-C | 82 | 32 | 28.4 | 53.1 | 75.4 | 2.3 | 4.5 | 6.8 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 2.3 | 1.7 | 3.2 | 13.6 | |
Nate Archibald | G | 68 | 0 | 31.9 | 47.2 | 37.5 | 74.7 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 8.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 2.6 | 1.9 | 12.6 |
Gerald Henderson | G | 82 | 31 | 22.5 | 50.1 | 16.7 | 72.7 | 0.6 | 1.3 | 1.9 | 3.1 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 2.4 | 10.2 |
M.L. Carr | F-G | 56 | 27 | 23.1 | 45.0 | 29.4 | 70.7 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 2.7 | 2.3 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 2.4 | 8.1 |
Rick Robey | C-F | 80 | 4 | 14.8 | 49.3 | 0.0 | 53.5 | 1.4 | 2.3 | 3.7 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 2.3 | 5.7 |
Chris Ford | G-F | 76 | 53 | 20.9 | 41.8 | 31.7 | 69.6 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 5.7 |
Danny Ainge | G-F | 53 | 1 | 10.6 | 35.7 | 29.4 | 86.2 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 4.1 |
Charles Bradley | G | 51 | 1 | 6.6 | 45.1 | 0.0 | 67.7 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 3.0 |
Terry Duerod | G | 21 | 0 | 7.0 | 44.2 | 0.0 | 33.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 3.4 |
Eric Fernsten | C-F | 43 | 0 | 4.7 | 38.8 | 63.3 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 1.3 | |
Tracy Jackson | G-F | 11 | 0 | 6.0 | 38.5 | 60.0 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 2.4 | |
Averages | 858 | 359 | 23.1 | 49.9 | 26.6 | 74.0 | 1.5 | 2.9 | 4.4 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 2.3 | 10.7 |
Postseason - Player Totals:
Player | Pos | GP | Min | FGA | FGM | 3PA | 3PM | FTA | FTM | Off | Def | Reb | Ast | Stl | Blk | TO | PF | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Robert Parish | C | 12 | 426 | 209 | 102 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 51 | 43 | 92 | 135 | 18 | 5 | 48 | 39 | 47 | 255 |
Larry Bird | F-G | 12 | 490 | 206 | 88 | 6 | 1 | 45 | 37 | 33 | 117 | 150 | 67 | 23 | 17 | 38 | 43 | 214 |
Kevin McHale | F-C | 12 | 344 | 134 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 40 | 41 | 44 | 85 | 11 | 5 | 27 | 16 | 44 | 194 |
Cedric Maxwell | F | 12 | 385 | 120 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 50 | 37 | 50 | 87 | 26 | 18 | 11 | 24 | 40 | 174 |
Gerald Henderson | G | 12 | 310 | 93 | 38 | 2 | 0 | 35 | 24 | 12 | 13 | 25 | 48 | 14 | 2 | 25 | 30 | 100 |
M.L. Carr | F-G | 12 | 305 | 105 | 37 | 4 | 0 | 23 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 28 | 11 | 0 | 21 | 30 | 89 |
Nate Archibald | G | 8 | 277 | 70 | 30 | 4 | 0 | 28 | 25 | 1 | 16 | 17 | 52 | 5 | 2 | 23 | 21 | 85 |
Rick Robey | C-F | 12 | 122 | 40 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 13 | 13 | 16 | 29 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 27 | 55 |
Danny Ainge | G-F | 10 | 129 | 45 | 19 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 21 | 50 |
Chris Ford | G-F | 12 | 138 | 42 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 47 |
Charles Bradley | G | 7 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 4 |
Eric Fernsten | C-F | 5 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Totals | 126 | 2955 | 1074 | 497 | 27 | 5 | 370 | 271 | 195 | 368 | 606 | 281 | 89 | 113 | 215 | 324 | 1270 |
Postseason Player Averages:
Player | Pos | GP | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | Off | Def | Reb | Ast | Stl | Blk | TO | PF | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Robert Parish | C | 12 | 35.5 | 48.8 | 68.0 | 3.6 | 7.7 | 11.3 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 4.0 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 21.3 | |
Larry Bird | F-G | 12 | 40.8 | 42.7 | 16.7 | 82.2 | 2.8 | 9.8 | 12.5 | 5.6 | 1.9 | 1.4 | 3.2 | 3.6 | 17.8 |
Kevin McHale | F-C | 12 | 28.7 | 57.5 | 75.5 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 7.1 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 3.7 | 16.2 | |
Cedric Maxwell | F | 12 | 32.1 | 51.7 | 71.4 | 3.1 | 4.2 | 7.3 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 3.3 | 14.5 | |
Gerald Henderson | G | 12 | 25.8 | 40.9 | 0.0 | 68.6 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 2.1 | 4.0 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 8.3 |
M.L. Carr | F-G | 12 | 25.4 | 35.2 | 0.0 | 65.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.6 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 2.5 | 7.4 |
Nate Archibald | G | 8 | 34.6 | 42.9 | 0.0 | 89.3 | 0.1 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 6.5 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 2.9 | 2.6 | 10.6 |
Rick Robey | C-F | 12 | 10.2 | 52.5 | 76.5 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 2.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 2.3 | 4.6 | |
Danny Ainge | G-F | 10 | 12.9 | 42.2 | 50.0 | 76.9 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 2.1 | 5.0 |
Chris Ford | G-F | 12 | 11.5 | 47.6 | 28.6 | 71.4 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 3.9 |
Charles Bradley | G | 7 | 2.6 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.6 | |
Eric Fernsten | C-F | 5 | 2.2 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | |
Averages | 858 | 23.5 | 46.3 | 18.5 | 73.2 | 1.5 | 2.9 | 4.8 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 1.7 | 2.6 | 10.1 |