Today in Boston Celtics history: Suns' Booker gets 70 in Cs win; Bart Kofoed, Earl Williams born

Today in Boston Celtics history, Celtics fans experienced a unique event—watching Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker put up a career-high 70 points, despite his team's loss to Boston in the game, with a final score of 130-120, in 2017. At just 20 years old, Booker joined an elite group of players who have achieved at least 70 points in a single game, including legends such as Elvin Hayes, Wilt Chamberlain, David Thompson, David Robinson, and Kobe Bryant – and more recent members of that club, like Bam Adebayo. However, this remarkable performance by Booker was insufficient to secure a victory for his team, not that anyone but Celtics fans still thinks about that aspect.

Somehow, the Celtics managed to weather the offensive eruption from Booker to come away with the win. Birthdays On this date, Earl Williams was born in Levittown Pennsylvania in 1951. Williams played at the NCAA level with the Winston-Salem State Rams, a Division II school, and was the 49th overall pick of the 1974 NBA Draft for the Suns.

He signed the Celtics after stints with the Detroit Pistons, the (then) New York Nets (now, Brooklyn), and Swedish team Alvik Basket Klub, and averaged 6. 1 points and 5. 3 rebounds per game in his sole season with Boston.

It is also the birthday of shooting guard Bart Kofoed, who was born on this day in Nebraska in 1964. The Omaha native was drafted out of the University of Nebraska at Kearney 107th overall in the 1987 NBA Draft (it used to have many more rounds) by the Utah Jazz. Kofoed played just seven games in one season with the Celtics in 1992, over which he averaged 2.