Cedric Bryan Maxwell was born on November 21,1955 and is an American retired professional basketball player now in radio broadcasting.
18 Facts About Cedric Maxwell
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Cedric Maxwell was drafted by the Boston Celtics, where he played for eight of his eleven seasons.
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Cedric Maxwell made an impact in his second season with the Celtics.
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Cedric Maxwell was best known for his moves near or beneath the basket.
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Cedric Maxwell was very effective in the low post, faking defenders into the air, drawing contact, then making high percentage shots, and sometimes drawing a foul, using either his jump-hook close to the basket or going up against the glass.
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Cedric Maxwell, in addition to being a dangerous scorer and a colorful character, was a clutch performer in the playoffs.
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Three years later, Cedric Maxwell scored 24 points against the Los Angeles Lakers in the decisive game-seven victory during the 1984 NBA Finals.
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Cedric Maxwell made fun of Kurt Rambis prior to Game 4 of the 1984 Finals, wearing Rambis's trademark glasses and inadvertently missing a long range shot in front of loyal Rambis fans known as the Rambis Youth.
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Cedric Maxwell was traded, with a draft pick, on September 6,1985, to the Los Angeles Clippers for center Bill Walton.
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Cedric Maxwell spent a season and a half with the Clippers before being dealt to the Houston Rockets in January, 1987, for two draft picks.
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Cedric Maxwell was the 22nd former Celtic to have his jersey retired by the Celtics on December 15,2003.
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Cedric Maxwell is a radio broadcaster for WBZ-FM in Boston, where he has announced Boston Celtics games with Sean Grande since 2001 and lives in Weston, Massachusetts.
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Cedric Maxwell was a frequent co-host on WEEI's sports talk radio shows, such as The Big Show with former Celtics TV announcer Glenn Ordway, before Ordway parted with the station.
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In June 2013, Grande and Cedric Maxwell, better known in Boston as Grande and Max, began co-hosting a new show, Celtics Summer Cooler, a weekly offseason update on the Celtics.
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Cedric Maxwell came under fire for comments he made on the air during a game in 2007.
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Cedric Maxwell went on to say he was hoping the school would at least offer him an interview.
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Cedric Maxwell received the nickname "Cornbread" from his college teammate Melvin Watkins after the pair went to see the movie Cornbread, Earl and Me, in which a 12-year-old boy is traumatized by the murder of his friend, a star basketball player.
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Watkins thought that Cedric Maxwell looked like the title character and so began calling him Cornbread.