Celtics fans are going to love Amir Johnson. (Toronto fans and teammates are going to miss him.) He is the definition of a hard-working, blue-collar NBA player who does all the dirty work and does it well. He could have fit in with the Celtics of any era.
But one part of his transition to Boston was difficult — picking a uniform number. Jimmy Toscano at CSNNE.com has Johnson’s quote about his new number in green.
“Number 90. Every number 1-34 is basically retired,” Johnson said. “My first initial number, I picked No. 5, but I know there was going to kind of be some controversy with that because Kevin Garnett won a championship. So I knew that was pretty much out the [window]. My number of course was retired (15, Tommy Heinsohn). And I recently posted a picture on my social network . . . it was a team back in the 90’s, like ’97, ’96, I played for my first organized basketball team which was the Burbank Celtics. It was a Celtics team. So I just kind of put that together. The 90’s were good. I was born in ’87 but the 90’s were good.”
The 90s were good if you can ignore Creed, Fred Durst and the rat-tail hairstyle.
Here are those Burbank Celtics:
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And his player card from that team:
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