On this day in Boston Celtics history, big man Ron Grandison signed with the storied franchise as an unrestricted free agent in 1988. Grandison played his college ball at both the University of California, Irvine, and the University of New Orleans before he was selected in the fifth round of the 1987 NBA draft with the 100th overall pick (there were many more rounds in this era) by the Denver Nuggets.
He would never suit up for that organization however and instead played a single season for the Rochester Flyers in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA – that era’s equivalent of the NBA G League) after being waived by the Nuggets.
Grandison then signed with the Celtics the following fall.