Rick Weitzman

Richard L. Weitzman (born April 30, 1946) is an American former basketball player, scout, coach, and color commentator. He was a member of the Boston Celtics team that won the 1968 NBA Finals.

Biography Weitzman played high school basketball in Brookline, Massachusetts, then played college basketball for the Northeastern Huskies. He also played in the 1966 Pan American Maccabiah Games in Brazil, at which Team USA won a gold medal, with Barry Leibowitz, Dave Newmark, and Mark Turenshine, among others. He was selected by the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA) in the 1967 NBA draft.

A shooting guard, Weitzman played one season (1967–68) in the NBA as a member of the Celtics. He averaged 1.3 points per game and won a championship ring when the Celtics defeated the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1968 NBA Finals. He scored the final two points in the sixth and final game of the championship series against the Lakers.

Weitzman went on to teach English at Peabody High School in Massachusetts for 13 years, and coached the school's basketball team during the 1970s. He spent two years as a color commentator for Celtics radio broadcasts in the early 1980s, working with Johnny Most. He also worked as a scout for the Celtics, where he spent 13 years and became the team's head scout, until being dismissed in 1997 when Rick Pitino was hired as head coach and general manager. Weitzman later had personnel roles with the Cleveland Cavaliers and Charlotte Bobcats. One of his final jobs before retiring was serving as an assistant basketball coach for the UMass Boston Beacons.

Career statistics

NBA Source

Regular season Year Team GP MPG FG% FT% RPG APG PPG † Boston 25 3.0 .261 .692 .4 .3 1.3

Playoffs Year Team GP MPG FG% FT% RPG APG PPG 1968† Boston 3 1.7 .667 – .3 .3 1.3