Con un tiro libero nell'Overtime della partita contro i Bucks, Paul Pierce diventa il 37° giocatore nella storia della NBA a superare quota 20.000 punti. Terzo giocatore ad aver raggiunto questo obbiettivo indossando solo la biancoverde dopo John Havlicek (11° con 26,395) e Larry Bird  (25° con 21,791).

Queste le dichiarazioni di un emoziato Paul Pierce a fine gara :

• “It was a little emotional, a lot of people in here, they’ve seen a lot of that, 20,000, not a lot of people in NBA history have accomplished that. Just to make history for the NBA is great,’’ he said. “Five years ago, I wouldn’t have dreamed I would be scoring 20,000 points in a Celtics uniform. The team was going in a direction, I was a disgruntled player at the time, to be here and be talking about this feat is an incredible moment for me.’’

Anche Doc Rivers si complimenta con il suo capitano per il traguardo raggiunto :

• "Yeah, well that's even better [to do it with one team]," Rivers said. "But in a lot of ways, that is the Celtic way. When you think about it, all the guys that have the big numbers with the Celtics were basically Celtics. When you think about it. So it's fitting in a lot of ways, because that is the way it's been done around here for a long, long time. And that's good."