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- Joe Lapchick starred at
- center in the early days of
- professional basketball, as
- a member of the Original
- Celtics, a team from New
- York City.
-
- A big kid for his day, Joe was playing for
- money by the time he was 15 years old. By
- the time he was 17, he was 6' 5'' tall and
- often hired to play against the Original
- Celtics. When he was 23, the Celtics asked
- him to join their club.
-
- The Original Celtics was one of the great
- teams in basketball, and Joe and Nat
- Holman were its biggest stars. Joe
- played until 1936, mostly with some
- version of New YorkΓÇÖs Celtics, but