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Boston Celtics sign Joe Johnson to 10-day contract, ending guard's 3-year NBA absence

BOSTON - Twenty years after he began his NBA career in Boston, Joe Johnson has been given a chance to write another chapter to it by signing a 10-day contract as a hardship waiver with the Celtics Tuesday afternoon.

"I mean, I knew it was a possibility," Johnson said before suiting up for a game for the first time in an NBA game since Game 7 of the 2018 Western Conference Finals.

"Obviously basketball is my first love. So like I said to have this opportunity to come about, regardless of how came, I'm definitely blessed and appreciative of the moment .