Weitzman played high school basketball in
Brookline, Massachusetts, then played
college basketball for the
Northeastern Huskies. He also played in the 1966 Pan American
Maccabiah Games in Brazil, at which Team USA won a gold medal, with
Barry Leibowitz,
Dave Newmark, and
Mark Turenshine, among others. He was selected by the
Boston Celtics of the
National Basketball Association (NBA) in the
1967 NBA draft. A
shooting guard, Weitzman played one season (
1967–68) in the NBA as a member of the Celtics. He averaged 1.3
points per game and won a championship ring when the Celtics defeated the
Los Angeles Lakers in the
1968 NBA Finals. He scored the final two points in the sixth and final game of the championship series against the Lakers. Weitzman went on to teach English at
Peabody High School in Massachusetts for 13 years, and coached the school's basketball team during the 1970s. He spent two years as a
color commentator for Celtics radio broadcasts in the early 1980s, working with
Johnny Most. He also worked as a
scout for the Celtics, where he spent 13 years and became the team's head scout, until being dismissed in 1997 when
Rick Pitino was hired as head coach and general manager. Weitzman later had personnel roles with the
Cleveland Cavaliers and
Charlotte Bobcats. One of his final jobs before retiring was serving as an assistant basketball coach for the
UMass Boston Beacons. ==Career statistics==