Question: What date did the 1993 Boston celtics team captain die? 
Context: The 1992–93 NBA season was the 47th season for the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association.  This marked the first season since the 1978–79 season that Hall of Fame player Larry Bird was not on the team.  This was also the final season for longtime Celtics All-Star forward Kevin McHale, as he would retire the following offseason.  During the offseason, the Celtics signed free agent All-Star forward Xavier McDaniel.  However, the team got off to a bad start losing eight of their first ten games, but would post a nine-game winning streak in March to finish second in the Atlantic Division with a solid 48–34 record (only 3 games behind the previous year, when Bird was on the team).  The Celtics held home court advantage in the first round of the playoffs against the 5th-seeded Charlotte Hornets, but during Game 1 of the series, All-Star forward Reggie Lewis collapsed on the court (Lewis would never again play in a Celtics uniform, and would die before the next season began).  Boston held on to win Game 1, but (minus Lewis) lost the next three games, and thus the series. The 1978–79 Boston Celtics season was the 33rd season of the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association (NBA).  It was the worst record of any Celtics team that played between 1950 and 1996. The 2002–03 NBA season was the 57th season for the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association.  During the offseason, the Celtics acquired Vin Baker from the Seattle SuperSonics.  The Celtics posted a six-game winning streak after losing their first two games, and got off to a solid 16–7 start.  However, they lost six straight games in March, and finished third in the Atlantic Division with a 44–38 record.  The team made the playoffs for the second time with team captain Paul Pierce, but this time as the #6 seed in the Eastern Conference.  Pierce and Antoine Walker were both selected for the 2003 NBA All-Star Game.  After defeating the 3rd-seeded Indiana Pacers four games to two in the first round, they were unable to stop the New Jersey Nets as they were swept in four straight Conference Semifinal games.  This was also Walker's final season with the Celtics, as he was traded along with Tony Delk to the Dallas Mavericks the following offseason.  He would return to Boston midway during the 2004–05 season. Reggie Lewis (November 21, 1965 – July 27, 1993) was an American professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association's Boston Celtics from 1987 to 1993. The 1951 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game played on March 2, 1951, at Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, home of the Boston Celtics.  The game was the first edition of the National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star Game and was played during the 1950–51 NBA season.  The idea of holding an All-Star Game was conceived during a meeting between NBA President Maurice Podoloff, NBA publicity director Haskell Cohen and Boston Celtics owner Walter A. Brown.  At that time, the basketball world had just been stunned by the college basketball point-shaving scandal.  In order to regain public attention to the league, Cohen suggested the league to host an exhibition game featuring the league's best players, similar to the Major League Baseball's All-Star Game.  Although most people, including Podoloff, were pessimistic about the idea, Brown remained confident that it would be a success.  He even offered to host the game and to cover all the expenses or potential losses incurred from the game.  The Eastern All-Stars team defeated the Western All-Stars team 111–94.  Boston Celtics' Ed Macauley was named as the first NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award.  The game became a success, drawing an attendance of 10,094, much higher than that season's average attendance of 3,500. The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California.  They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA).  The Lakers' franchise was founded in 1947 in Detroit, Michigan before moving to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where the team got its official title from the state's nickname, "Land of 10,000 Lakes".  The Minneapolis Lakers won five NBA Finals before relocating to Los Angeles in the 1960–61 NBA season, becoming the first West Coast team in league history.  In the 1960s, the Lakers reached the NBA Finals six times, but lost every series to the Boston Celtics, beginning their long and storied rivalry.  In 1972, with future Hall of Famers Wilt Chamberlain, Gail Goodrich, and Jerry West, the Lakers compiled a 33-game winning streak, the longest streak in U.S. professional team sports, and won their sixth title under coach Bill Sharman.  The Lakers' popularity soared in the 1980s when they won five additional championships during a nine-year span with the help of Hall of Famers Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy and coach Pat Riley, the franchise's all-time leader in both regular season and playoff games coached and wins.  Two of those championships during that span were against their arch-rivals, the Boston Celtics.  With the team of Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, Toby Tincher, and Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson, the Lakers played in four of the first five NBA Finals of the 21st century; winning three consecutively from 2000 to 2002, and losing the fourth in 2004.  The Lakers would then conclude the decade with three straight Finals appearances; losing to the Boston Celtics in 2008 but then prevailing with back-to-back championships against the Orlando Magic in 2009 and the Boston Celtics in 2010.  The 2010 championship marks the 16th NBA championship in Lakers franchise history. The 1959 NBA World Championship Series was the championship series of the 1958–59 National Basketball Association season, and was the conclusion of the 1959 NBA Playoffs.  The best-of-seven series was played between the Western Division champion Minneapolis Lakers and the Eastern Division champion Boston Celtics.  It was Boston's third trip to the NBA Finals and Minneapolis's sixth.  The Boston Celtics swept the Lakers 4–0.  That was the start of the Celtics' 8 consecutive championships, from 1959–1966.  To date, this is the most recent time that an NBA team from Minnesota appeared in an NBA Finals, as well as the first of two times in NBA history that a team with a losing record made the NBA Finals (the other was in 1981). The 1993–94 NBA season was the 48th season for the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association.  This season marked the first since 1978–79 that the Celtics failed to qualify for the NBA Playoffs (a streak of 14 seasons), finishing fifth in the Atlantic Division with a 32–50 record.  Tragedy struck the team prior to the season when star forward and team captain Reggie Lewis died of cardiac arrest during practice.  The absence of Lewis, and the retirements over the previous two seasons of Larry Bird and Kevin McHale contributed to the poor season.  The Celtics had a 7-game winning streak in January, but also had a winless month in February where they suffered a 13-game losing streak.  Rookie Dino Radja was named to the All-Rookie Second Team.  Following the season, longtime Celtics center Robert Parish signed as an unrestricted free agent with the Charlotte Hornets, and Kevin Gamble signed with the Miami Heat. The 1988–89 Boston Celtics season was the 43rd season of the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association (NBA).  This was the first season for Jim Rodgers as head coach.  Rodgers had been a Celtics assistant coach prior to this season.  This year's Celtics team was severely hindered by the loss of star forward Larry Bird to a heel injury which required surgery.  Bird played only six early-season games before being lost to injury.  Initially, Bird was expected back in March, but it was delayed and ultimately became a season-ending injury.  The results were dramatic as the Celtics, who had averaged over 60 wins per season thus far in the 1980s, fell to just 42 wins in this season.  Coming into the season, the Celtics had been the Eastern Conference's #1 seed five years in a row.  This season they were the #8 seed, clinching a playoff spot in the season's final game.  This season included some bright spots, particularly the emergence of guard Reggie Lewis, who had been only a minimal bench contributor in his rookie season of 1987-88, but averaged nearly 20 points per game as a starter in 1988-89. The 1946–47 Boston Celtics season was the first season of the Boston Celtics in the Basketball Association of America (BAA/NBA).  Walter A. Brown was the man who was responsible for starting the franchise.  On an early June day in 1946, Brown, who operated the Boston Garden arena and was part of the National Hockey League's Boston Bruins, was the driving force behind the Basketball Association of America and the Celtics birth.  After considering several team names, including Whirlwinds, Unicorns and Olympics, Brown opted for Celtics.  He hoped to grab the attention of Boston's large Irish American population.  John Davis "Honey" Russell was hired as the first Celtics coach, and the team soon began its inaugural season, losing its first game 59–53 to the Providence Steamrollers.  Although the Celtics would eventually become the signature franchise of the NBA, the club had a lacklustre first season as they started with 0 wins and 5 losses.  The Celtics won their first game of the season against the Toronto Huskies.
Answer: July 27, 1993