4:17pm: Jackson’s signing is official, the Celtics announced in a press release.
11:35am: The Celtics are planning to sign forward Justin Jackson to a 10-day contract using the hardship exemption, Shams Charania of The Athletic tweets.
Jackson has been playing for the Texas Legends, Dallas’ NBA G League affiliate.
The 15th pick of the 2017 draft, Jackson has appeared in 248 NBA games. Last season, he played 33 games for the Thunder and another for the Bucks. He began his career with Sacramento and also played one full season and part of another for Dallas.
The Mavericks waived Jackson during training camp prior to this season.
Boston has a handful of players in the league’s health and safety protocols — Sam Hauser, Juan Hernangomez, Al Horford, Jabari Parker and Grant Williams. The exemption is being used by multiple clubs to handle the current COVID crisis around the league. Players signed via the exemption don’t count against the 15-man roster limit.
With 99%+ of the players vaccinated, what’s going on with all the players testing positive???
99 percent of the players aren’t vaccinated. What?
95% as of september is the last number I heard.
The vaccine and masks just aren’t working. I can’t speak for other folks, but where I work somewhere (can’t say where) that we are all mandated to be vaccinated and are required to wear masks, and we’ve had an absolute outbreak at our “facilities”. I’m not a doctor/scientist, etc.. But proof is in the pudding as they say… This has been my experience anyway.
So maybe listen to what those doctors and scientists say in the face of this new variant and get boosted.
Wow didn’t realize Celtics had this many players in protocols
Another unlucky draft pic by the Sacramento Kings. Can’t believe the bad luck they have. Could have had Zach Collins, who was an effective player and got hurt, but traded Collins to Portland for Justin Jackson. Very unlucky because Justin Jackson is not a rotation NBA player. He’s just a guy.