Today in Boston Celtics history, the team signed Brett Szabo in 1996. Szabo was a Postville, Iowa native who was a multi-sport athlete that played both golf and baseball on top of the sport of basketball. He played his NCAA ball with Division II Augustana College Vikings of Sioux City, Iowa. While there, he won All-North Central Conference (NCC) honors two consecutive seasons in 1989 and 1990.

Szabo ended up going unselected in the 1991 NBA draft and instead signed a training camp contracts with the Charlotte Hornets several seasons later in 1994 before being cut by that franchise a few weeks later.

The Iowan would bounce around the Continental Basketball Association and overseas before landing a shot with the Celtics, for whom he would play one season.

The center would appear in 70 games for the franchise in the 1996-97 NBA season, putting up an average of 2.2 points and 2.4 rebounds per game in 9.5 minutes of playing time.

It would be both his first and last stop in the NBA, making one more camp deal with the Philadelphia 76ers the following fall, but did not make the team.

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