Boston Celtics all-time greats Larry Bird and Bill Russell will introduce a couple of inductees at the 2018 Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Inductions.

Bird will present Dino Radja, who played his entire four-year NBA career with the Celtics. Radja, who was in Boston from 1993 to 1997 and was never actually teammates with Bird, also played in his home, now Croatia, during the 1980s and 1990s. He took Jugoplastika to two EuroLeague titles during that time.

Russell will present Rick Welts, who is currently the Chief Operating Officer for the Golden State Warriors. Welts was CEO of the Phoenix Suns before that. He worked for the Seattle SuperSonics when Russell was the head coach there from 1973 to 1977.

The two aforementioned Hall of Famers aren't the only two Celtics involved in the induction ceremony. Two-time champion and 1973 MVP Dave Cowens will present Charlie Scott, who was his teammate in Boston from 1975 to 1977. Scott also played for the Los Angeles Lakers, Denver Nuggets, Phoenix Suns and Virginia Squires of the ABA. The guard averaged 20.7 points and 4.9 assists during his 10-year career.

Radja averaged 16.7 points and 8.4 rebounds as a big man with the Celtics. He never played on a team that won more than 35 games but established himself in international ball, where he was a member of the 1988 silver-medal winning Yugoslavian team and where he put up numbers playing at home and in Italy.

Bird was inducted to the Hall of Fame in 1998, Cowens, in 1991. Russell was elected in 1975, though he technically refused his induction.

Inductions are scheduled for Sep. 7.

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Fred Katz covers the Celtics for MassLive.com. Follow him on Twitter: @FredKatz.