AJ Johnson has a long road ahead of him in his NBA career. As a 20-year-old rookie from Australia’s NBL who played just 26 games, he needs a lot of coaching to reach the levels that general manager Jon Horst and head coach Doc Rivers think he can reach. To help him attain that ceiling, with their plans set for him to be a primary ball handler, Rivers brought one of his former disciples in for training camp: Rajon Rondo.
“It was great, you could just tell that [Rondo] really wanted to help me and give me [his] knowledge,” Johnson said.