Paul Pierce played basketball.
The Consensus 1998 College Basketball All-American team , as determined by aggregating the results of four major All-American teams . The All-NBA Team is an annual National Basketball Association ( NBA ) honor bestowed on the best players in the league following every NBA season . The Brooklyn Nets are an American professional basketball team based in the New York City borough of Brooklyn . The NCAA Men 's Basketball All-American teams are teams made up of National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) basketball players voted the best in the country by a variety of organizations . Paul Pierce . Pierce spent the first fifteen years of his career with the Boston Celtics , who drafted him with the 10th overall pick in the 1998 NBA draft .