The Celtics’ G League affiliate added a first-round draft choose to its roster this weekend.
The Maine Celtics claimed 23-year-old guard Keon Johnson off waivers on Saturday, in line with the G League transaction wire.
Drafted twenty first general by the Knicks in 2021, Johnson has 161 video games of NBA expertise, together with 68 begins. The Tennessee product noticed motion in 79 video games for Brooklyn final season, making 56 begins for the rebuilding Nets and averaging 10.6 factors, 3.8 rebounds and a couple of.2 assists per sport.
Johnson beforehand hung out with the Clippers and Path Blazers, overlapping with present Celtics guard Anfernee Simons in Portland. He was traded to Phoenix within the multi-team 2023 deal that despatched Jrue Vacation to Portland (a precursor to Vacation’s subsequent commerce to Boston) however was launched by the Suns a month later. The Nets waived Johnson in September.
Listed at 6-foot-5, Johnson is a profession 37.9% shooter (23.4% from 3-point vary). He was not energetic for Maine’s sport in opposition to the Westchester Knicks on Sunday.
