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On this day in Boston Celtics history, former Celtics power forward Ned Dixon “Dick” Hemric was born in Jonesville, North Carolina in 1933. The Jonesville native would play his college ball with the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, where he would make All-American in 1954 and 1955.

The 6-foot-6 forward would set a scoring record (2,587 career points) in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) that stood until 2009 and a rebounding record (1,802 career rebounds) that still stands in his time with Wake Forest, not even equaled by the mighty Tim Duncan during his tenure with the Demon Deacons many years later.

Evidently, he played well enough to convince the Celtics to draft him with the 10th overall pick of the 1955 NBA draft.

Hemric would play a total of 138 games over two seasons for the Celtics.

The North Carolin native, averaged 6.3 points and 5.1 rebounds per game over 17.3 minutes per game before walking away from the game as a player in 1957.

It is also the anniversary of the passing of former Boston guard and forward John Albert Janisch, who died at age 72 in West Branch, Michigan on this day in 1992.

Born in Indiana on March 15, 1920, Janisch played collegiately for Valparaiso with the Beacons men’s basketball team from 1943 to 1946 before he would make the leap to the pro ranks with the now-defunct Detroit Falcons of the Basketball Association of America (BAA — a precursor league of the NBA).

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He would be drafted by the Celtics in the dispersal draft of the Falcons in 1947 but would play just 3 games total with Boston.

He would play another 7 contests with the also-defunct BAA team the Providence Steamrollers before leaving the league to play in the National Basketball League (NBL, another precursor league of the NBA to later merge with the BAA, not to be confused with the Australian league of the same name of today).

He logged a point per game in his brief stint as a Celtic.

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