Amir Johnson’s unselfish style of play makes him easy to underestimate, but his consistency could be crucial to the Celtics this season.
Amir Johnson is such a blue-collar basketball player that you could easily imagine him taking a literal lunch pail to work with him at the TD Garden. However, considering Johnson will be earning $12 million this year, it’s pretty unlikely that he packs his own lunch.
To earn his paycheque, Amir doesn’t put up gaudy numbers, he doesn’t stuff his stat sheet, and he doesn’t have a lot of highlight-reel plays. What he does do is punch in, do his job, and punch out.