1948-49 Boston Celtics Statistics

Basketball Association of America (BAA)
Team Record: 25-35
Finishing 5th in the BAA's Eastern Division
Coach: Alvin Julian (25-35)
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Attendance: 144,275, Avg. 4,975 in 29 home dates

1948-49 Boston Celtics Roster
1948-49 Boston Celtics Results

The Boston Celtics of the Basketball Association of America ended the 1948-49 season with a record of 25 wins and 35 losses, finishing fifth in the BAA's Eastern Division.

The Celtics scored 4,593 points and conceded 4,768. Bulbs Ehlers tossed in a team-best 514 points for Boston, and Jim Seminoff dished out 229 assists for the squad.

Alvin Julian coached the team.

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Player Totals:

Player	Pos	GP	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Ast	PF	Pts
Bulbs Ehlers	F-G	59	583	182			225	150	133	119	514
Gene Stump	F-G	56	580	193			129	92	56	102	478
Jim Seminoff	G-F	58	487	153			219	151	229	195	457
Bob Doll	F-C	47	438	145			117	80	117	118	370
Mel Riebe	G-F	33	501	146			116	70	95	97	362
Art Spector	F	59	434	130			116	64	77	111	324
Chick Halbert	C	33	338	99			188	112	61	97	310
George Kaftan	F	21	315	116			115	72	61	28	304
George Nostrand	C-F	27	267	91			135	83	38	74	265
Dermie O'Connell	G	21	315	87			56	30	65	40	204
Bob Kinney	C-F	21	224	75			91	54	26	89	204
Tom Kelly	G	27	218	73			73	45	38	73	191
Johnny Ezersky	F-G	18	185	68			80	49	29	49	185
Johnny Bach	F-G	34	119	34			75	51	25	24	119
Bill Roberts	C	26	109	36			19	9	13	34	81
Stan Noszka	G	30	123	30			30	15	25	56	75
Phil Farbman	F	21	78	21			38	30	18	36	72
Jack Garfinkel	G	9	70	12			14	10	17	19	34
Hank Beenders	C-F	8	28	6			9	7	3	9	19
John Hazen	G	6	17	6			7	6	3	10	18
Earl Shannon	G-F	5	11	2			4	1	4	2	5
Al Lucas	F-G	2	3	1			0	0	2	0	2
Totals		621	5443	1706	0	0	1856	1181	1135	1382	4593

Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	FG%	FT%	Ast	PF	Pts
Bulbs Ehlers	F-G	59	31.2	66.7	2.3	2.0	8.7
Gene Stump	F-G	56	33.3	71.3	1.0	1.8	8.5
Jim Seminoff	G-F	58	31.4	68.9	3.9	3.4	7.9
Bob Doll	F-C	47	33.1	68.4	2.5	2.5	7.9
Mel Riebe	G-F	33	29.1	60.3	2.9	2.9	11.0
Art Spector	F	59	30.0	55.2	1.3	1.9	5.5
Chick Halbert	C	33	29.3	59.6	1.8	2.9	9.4
George Kaftan	F	21	36.8	62.6	2.9	1.3	14.5
George Nostrand	C-F	27	34.1	61.5	1.4	2.7	9.8
Dermie O'Connell	G	21	27.6	53.6	3.1	1.9	9.7
Bob Kinney	C-F	21	33.5	59.3	1.2	4.2	9.7
Tom Kelly	G	27	33.5	61.6	1.4	2.7	7.1
Johnny Ezersky	F-G	18	36.8	61.3	1.6	2.7	10.3
Johnny Bach	F-G	34	28.6	68.0	0.7	0.7	3.5
Bill Roberts	C	26	33.0	47.4	0.5	1.3	3.1
Stan Noszka	G	30	24.4	50.0	0.8	1.9	2.5
Phil Farbman	F	21	26.9	78.9	0.9	1.7	3.4
Jack Garfinkel	G	9	17.1	71.4	1.9	2.1	3.8
Hank Beenders	C-F	8	21.4	77.8	0.4	1.1	2.4
John Hazen	G	6	35.3	85.7	0.5	1.7	3.0
Earl Shannon	G-F	5	18.2	25.0	0.8	0.4	1.0
Al Lucas	F-G	2	33.3		1.0	0.0	1.0
Averages		621	31.3	63.6	1.8	2.2	7.4