Rajon Rondo helped the Boston Celtics beat the Lakers within the 2008 NBA Finals.
He and the Celtics misplaced to the Lakers within the 2010 NBA Finals.
He won another NBA title in 2020 as a member of the Lakers.
He performed in practically 1,000 video games for 9 totally different groups throughout 16 NBA seasons.
He performed his final recreation practically two years in the past.
And now Rondo has made it official — he’s retired.
Throughout an look on the “All the Smoke” podcast that was posted Monday, the 38-year-old level guard was requested if the NBA had seen the final of him as a participant. Rondo was fast and emphatic together with his reply.
“Completely,” he informed hosts Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson. “Yeah, I’m achieved. I’d fairly spend time with my children.”
Later within the podcast, Rondo referred to himself as “a full-time dad, every time I could be.”
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Rajon Rondo, who received NBA championships with the Lakers and Celtics, was arrested in Indiana over the weekend on expenses associated to firearm and drug possession.
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Rondo was arrested in Indiana in January on misdemeanor expenses associated to firearm and drug possession. He was pulled over after a caller reported a black 2022 Tesla that Rondo was driving was touring recklessly on I-65 southbound in Bartholomew County, in response to Indiana State Police.
In the course of the cease, the trooper smelled marijuana coming from the automotive and carried out a search, police stated. Marijuana, drug paraphernalia and a firearm have been present in Rondo’s possession, in response to police.
Police stated that Rondo is “prohibited from possessing the firearm attributable to him having a safety order in place in opposition to him.” A juvenile who was additionally within the automotive was launched to a member of the family, police stated.
A listening to is scheduled for June 13.
Rondo was chosen twenty first general by the Phoenix Suns within the 2006 draft however was traded the identical day to Boston, the place he spent the primary eight-plus seasons of his profession. Throughout that point, Rondo led the league in assists per recreation twice and steals as soon as. His 990 steals and 4,474 assists with the workforce rank third and fourth all-time for Celtics gamers.
After being traded to Dallas through the 2014-15 season, Rondo spent the second half of his profession bouncing from workforce to workforce, main the league in assists as a member of the Sacramento Kings in 2015-16. Following his time in Boston, Rondo spent consecutive years on the identical roster simply as soon as, with the Lakers in 2018-19 and 2019-20. He was considered a key role player on the LeBron James/Anthony Davis-led Lakers team that won the NBA title in 2020.
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Alongside Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Rajon Rondo introduced a component to the Lakers’ recreation that was essential in serving to them safe the NBA title.
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Rondo cut up the next season between the Atlanta Hawks and Clippers earlier than returning to the Lakers to begin the 2021-22 season. He completed that season with the Cleveland Cavaliers, enjoying his 957th and remaining NBA recreation on April 10, 2022.
And, Rondo informed Barnes and Jackson, he “beloved each minute of it.”
“I admire the brotherhood that I used to be capable of share and bond and develop with over time,” Rondo stated. “I’ve discovered a lot on this recreation and it’s made me the person who I’m right this moment, ?”
He added: “I inform individuals on a regular basis, this wasn’t a dream of mine. It was a objective. I used to be capable of lock in, keep disciplined, … I understood what it took to get there and I used to be blessed and lucky to have the proper individuals round me to maintain me going when instances weren’t nearly as good, to persevere, understood that cream all the time rises to the highest.”
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Chuck Schilken is a sports activities reporter on the Quick Break workforce. He spent greater than 18 years with the Los Angeles Occasions’ Sports activities Division in a wide range of roles. Earlier than becoming a member of The Occasions, he labored for greater than a decade as a sports activities reporter and editor at newspapers in Virginia and Maryland.
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