What do the Celtics do to shore themselves up for the stretch drive? Their pursuit of Sam Cassell is well-known, but Clippers owner Donald Sterling, to date, has been reluctant to buy Cassell out of the final year of his contract ($6.1 million). And the Celtics aren't going to make a trade by Thursday's deadline.
So they'll keep an eye on the Kings, who acquired point guards Anthony Johnson and Tyronn Lue last weekend in the Mike Bibby trade. Sacramento traded Bibby, in part, to give Beno Udrih every chance to show he's a lead guard. So they can't keep Udrih, Johnson and Lue on the roster. The C's hope that either Johnson or Lue is cast off by Sacramento and that they can pick one of them up.
Both Johnson and Lue have had playoff success. Johnson, you may recall, scored a career-high 40 points just two years ago in the playoffs for the Pacers in a first-round series against the Nets. Lue, you definitely recall, gave Allen Iverson fits on defense in the 2001 Finals when he played for the Lakers.
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