When the s signed veteran level guard Rajon Rondo in the summertime of 2018, some questioned the transfer. Rondo was considered over the hill on the time, and he had a fame as somebody who had a prickly character and wasn't straightforward for teammates to get together with.
However he ended up changing into a key performer when the Lakers received the NBA championship through the 2019-20 season. Coming off the bench, Rondo was a much-needed second ball-handler and facilitator alongside LeBron James, and he constantly created tempo and arrange his teammates.
Some felt that Rondo and James' bullheaded personalities would conflict. However as he stated e on "The Draymond Inexperienced Present," Rondo determined to remain in his lane and never get in James' manner.
“I knew my position on the time. We’re two alphas, however on the similar time, I delight myself on being a star position participant,” Rondo stated. “So, for me, I fell in line. I knew what it was. It was no ego beating the chest, it was I’m going to have an opinion, which he all the time revered together with the teaching workers. So it was all the time only a hell of numerous respect we had for one another. No person takes care of their physique like him. He’s arguably the best participant of all time, he was very disciplined. He goes over and past what the common, and even a few of the nice NBA gamers have finished.”
Rondo averaged 8.1 factors, 6.5 assists and 4.1 rebounds in 25 minutes a sport through the 2018-19 and 2019-20 seasons as a member of the Lakers. Throughout the 2020 postseason, he put up 8.9 factors, 6.6 assists, 4.3 rebounds and 1.4 steals in 24.7 minutes a sport, and he even made 40% of his 3-point makes an attempt throughout that playoff run.
He’s one in all solely two gamers who’ve received championships with each the Lakers and the Boston Celtics. He received his title with Boston in 2008 towards, paradoxically sufficient, the Lakers.
Rondo later returned to the Lakers for the 2021-22 season earlier than they traded him in the course of that marketing campaign to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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