On this day in 1963, former Celtic shooting guard Kelvin Upshaw was born in Chicago, Illinois.
An alum of both at both Northeastern Oklahoma A&M and the University of Utah, Upshaw went undrafted. He worked his way up from the Continental Basketball Association (CBA — an equivalent to the G League in that era) to the Miami Heat. He started the 1988-89 season, appearing in nine games before returning to the CBA club he’d been with at the start of the season, the Albany Patroons. Upshaw managed to fight his way onto the Celts’ roster on the merit of his work over two ten-day contracts, only to find himself waived when summer came.
He found himself back in green in the fall, though, signed as a free agent in late November 1989. The stay was brief, however, as he was waived just a month later, the day after Christmas.