At any level of sports, one player's chance to shine comes at the expense of a star that goes down. That is what happened to the Celtics Jabari Bird.
At the beginning of last season, Bird was on a two-way contract with Boston and was looking at spending most of his time with the G-League Maine Red Claws. But within minutes of the Celtics' first game of the season, Gordon Hayward suffered his devastating ankle injury, and things changed fast for Jabari.
Bird received the call to action and got into the Celtics third game of the season versus Philadelphia.