Paul Pierce's All-Time Celtics Ranks

It's rare these days to have a player stay with the team that drafted him for his entire career. I mean, could we really have blamed Pierce if he demanded a trade after all those completely crappy years the Celtics had? No. He's a loyal guy, a fan of the game and its history, and has matured his game and his attitude to the point of being an all-time player. He is in the top ten in almost every offensive statistical category for the C's, which is a pretty high achievement, considering the Celtics have had more Hall of Fame players than any other team. Oh, and as a fun fact: Pierce was the fastest Celtics player to reach 10,000 points, ahead of Larry Bird. Yeah. Pwnage.

Because celtics.com does an awful job of updating their 'Top Ten' sections, I decided to update it myself. Here's where Pierce stands, including the Heat game last night:

GAMES PLAYED

1) John Havlicek............1270

2) Robert Parish............1106

3) Kevin McHale............971

4) Bill Russell.................963

5) Bob Cousy...................917

6) Tom Sanders..............916

7) Larry Bird...................897

8) Don Nelson................872

9) Sam Jones..................871

10) PIERCE..................776

MINUTES

1) John Havlicek............46,471

2) Bill Russell.................40,726

3) Robert Parish............34,977

4) Larry Bird..................34,443

5) Bob Cousy..................30,131

6) Kevin McHale...........30,118

7) PIERCE...................29,103

8) Dave Cowens.............28,551

9) JoJo White.................26,770

10) Sam Jones.................24,285

POINTS

1) John Havlicek..............26,935

2) Larry Bird....................21,791

3) Robert Parish..............18,245

4) PIERCE.....................17,787

5) Kevin McHale...............17,335

6) Bob Cousy.....................16,955

7) Sam Jones.....................15,411

8) Bill Russell...................14,522

9) Dave Cowens................13,192

10) JoJo White.................13,188

FIELD GOAL ATTEMPTS

1) John Havlicek...............23,930

2) Larry Bird.....................17,334

3) Bob Cousy.....................16,465

4) Sam Jones.....................13,745

5) Robert Parish...............13,558

6) PIERCE......................13,172

7) Bill Russell....................12,930

8) JoJo White...................12,782

9) Kevin McHale...............12,334

10) Dave Cowens...............11,787

FIELD GOALS MADE

1) John Havlicek................10,513

2) Larry Bird......................8591

3) Robert Parish...............7483

4) Kevin McHale..............6830

5) Sam Jones.....................6271

6) Bob Cousy.....................6167

7) PIERCE......................5818

8) Bill Russell...................5687

9) JoJo White...................5648

10) Dave Cowens.............5608

FREE THROW ATTEMPTS

1) John Havelicek............6589

2) PIERCE.....................6069

3) Bob Cousy....................5753

4) Bill Russell..................5614

5) Kevin McHale.............4554

6) Robert Parish.............4491

7) Larry Bird....................4471

8) Sam Jones...................3572

9) Ed Macauley................3518

10) Cedric Maxwell.........3496

FREE THROWS MADE

1) John Havlicek.............5369

2) PIERCE....................4842

3) Bob Cousy...................4621

4) Larry Bird...................3960

5) Kevin McHale.............3634

6) Robert Parish.............3279

7) Bill Russell..................3148

8) Bill Sharman...............3047

9) Sam Jones...................2869

10) Cedric Maxwell........2738

ASSISTS

1) Bob Cousy...................6945

2) John Havlicek............6114

3) Larry Bird...................5695

4) Bill Russell.................4100

5) JoJo White.................3686

6) Dennis Johnson.........3486

7) PIERCE....................3053

8) K.C. Jones...................2904

9) Dave Cowens..............2828

10) Nate Archibald.........2563

Crazy thing: Pierce can get to the top of each of these lists, save assists and points scored. (He may have been able to eclipse Havlicek had the Big Three not come to town, causing Pierce to have to share the scoring load. But I'll take a ring over All-Time Scoring Leader :)