According to coach Luke Walton, Los Angeles Lakers point guard Rajon Rondo will be “out a few weeks” after breaking his right shooting hand Wednesday night. The injury occurred in the Lakers’ 126-117 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers. “He hit his hand on the floor when he went to steal that ball,” Walton said. [...]
November 15, 2018
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Spitgate apparently has another act left to roll out. The NBA suspended Brandon Ingram, Chris Paul and Rajon Rondo in the aftermath of a fourth-quarter scuffle during the Houston Rockets’ victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. The soap opera should have ended there. It has not. Players were always going to be asked about this [...]
October 24, 2018
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The Houston Rockets are not happy Chris Paul received a two-game suspension for his role in a Saturday night incident involving Rajon Rondo, who was handed a three-game suspension himself. Carmelo Anthony, on the other hands, is just happy Paul didn’t get a heftier punishment. From USA Today‘s Martin Rogers: “I’m actually a little shocked at [...]
October 22, 2018
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It appeared last season that we were headed for an era where the Lakers were Lonzo, and let’s be honest, LaVar’s team. Insert LeBron James and a veteran point guard like Rajon Rondo and not only are the Lakers no longer Lonzo’s team, he apparently isn’t even a starter… Per Dave McMenamin of ESPN: “Luke [...]
September 26, 2018
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Kobe Bryant is not worried about how Rajon Rondo and Lonzo Ball will work together. During an appearance on “The Rich Eisen Show,” the Los Angeles Lakers legend talked about how he believes the veteran floor general can help the 2017 second-overall pick (from Lakers Nation’s Dan Duangdao): “I think there’s a lot to be learned from. [...]
September 14, 2018
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The Lakers made a flurry of eyebrow raising moves this summer after landing the big fish in free agency in LeBron James, one of those was signing Rajon Rondo. While not being viewed as being an elite point guard anymore like he was during his time in Boston and being infamous for ornery and basically [...]
August 10, 2018
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Rajon Rondo is now a member of the Los Angeles Lakers—and he isn’t joining LeBron James just to come off the bench. According to the Los Angeles Times‘ Tania Ganguli, Rondo will have the opportunity to win the starting point guard job from Lonzo Ball after signing a one-year, $9 million deal: [tweet https://twitter.com/taniaganguli/status/1013905088258060295] This is [...]
Rajon Rondo has held the reputation of being one of the more ornery and opinionated (at times) players in the NBA. His like or dislike for certain teammates and coaches over the years has been made very public: Kendrick Perkins, Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett = like, Rick Carlisle, Ray Allen = dislike. Rondo is very [...]
January 17, 2018
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I guess you could say Rajon Rondo is fully recovered from the sports hernia injury he suffered that caused him to miss the first month and a half of the season. Rondo did something that hadn’t been done in the NBA in over 20 years on Wednesday night: record 25 assists in a single game. [...]
December 28, 2017
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Rajon Rondo will miss the first month-plus of the 2017-18 regular season following surgery to repair a sports hernia injury, which basically just means he’s completed his New Orleans Pelicans initiation. Here’s The Vertical’s Shams Charania with the details: New Orleans Pelicans guard Rajon Rondo underwent surgery Tuesday for a sports hernia injury and will miss [...]
October 11, 2017
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