Rajon Rondo hopes to play tonight, Rivers not concerned long-term
Rajon Rondo’s sprained right wrist has kept him out of two straight games, subjecting Boston fans to Chinese water torture a combined 74 minutes of Avery Bradley playing point guard during the past two games. Fear not for the long term, though. Rondo hopes to play tonight against the Orlando Magic, and Doc Rivers says there are no long-term doubts that Rondo will return to good health. (Boston Herald)
Rajon Rondo missed his second straight game with a sprained right wrist suffered when he braced himself in a fall from a flagrant foul by Toronto’s Linas Kleiza last Wednesday. He hopes to play tonight against the Orlando Magic at the Garden.
“It’s really on me,” Rondo said. “Whenever I feel I can be productive, then I can come back.
“The important thing for me is when I can get the ground. Right now I don’t think I can do that without hurting it a lot worse. And with the way I play, I definitely hit the ground a lot. So when I’m good with that, I’ll be back.”
There is no definitive timetable for a return by Rondo.
“He could (miss more time), but I’m not concerned long term or anything,” Rivers said. “He’s close, but we’ve just got to get it right.”
Needless to say, the Celtics could use the do-everything guard who has easily been their best player this season.
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Is a flagrant foul really enough when one player basically clubs another like that guy did to Rondo?
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I apologize ahead of time to all the folks who think it’s wrong to question authority – Danny Defenders and the like – but I wonder what are the Celtics doing about this? Not only did they get rid of the team’s enforcer, but I have the impression that they have done nothing to get with the league about there being consequences for this kind of thing. How can a player like Rondo do his job when he knows that other players have carte blanche to unload on him? What Wade did last year, what Kleiza did a few days ago – THAT’S NOT BASKETBALL. For God’s sake, people, it’s not even WWF. Watch the video. He not only clocks Rondo across the body AS HE FALLS BACKWARDS ALREADY, as if he has a hockey stick in his hands, but he follows through like he’s just thrown a fastball. He flat out mugged Rondo. In no way did that resemble an actual basketball play.
This is the same fandom and media universe that when crazy when Garnett DID NOT REALLY poke Fry in the nuts; you know that play where Fry acted like nothing happened, then suddenly he remembered to fake it up like he’d been really hurt? Remember how everyone got on Garnett’s case? Well here we have Rondo being MUGGED twice, in eight months, and being injured in a way that could wreck his career, and not a peep from the fans and the media.
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So I ask, what about loyalty, people? Where is fan loyalty to a player who gives his all like no other player? Where is even basic respect for the kid? And where is team loyalty? Ok, let’s be blunt about it: is it because Rondo seems a bit, well, funny? Maybe a tiny bit, well, not like everyone else? Is that why it’s ok for him to be mugged on a regular basis? Does he ‘ask for it’ because, you know, oddballs deserve it, don’t they? Didn’t we all learn in grammar school that oddballs deserve to be beaten up?
The team needs to get with the league, and the next time someone muggs Rondo, they should face some consequences from the league.
Or else Rondo should wear body armor. I mean, I know he already does, but the full set. No one can take what he takes on a regular basis.
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Rondo sucks
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