Today, February 20th, is the fifteenth anniversary of the trade which sent former Boston Celtics wing Joe Johnson to the Phoenix Suns.
Chauncey Billups and Joe Johnson are probably the biggest what if Celtics of my lifetimeThe trade, which netted Rodney Rogers and Tony Delk in exchange for Randy Brown, Milt Palacio and a conditional 2002 first round draft pick in addition to Johnson, was something of a loss in retrospect given Johnson's growth as a player and the fact that both Delk and Rogers left - Rogers in free agency, and Delk in a trade - after playing only 116 games combined for the club. However, the Delk/Antoine Walker trade would have the seed of the deal which brought Ray Allen…
