Rajon Rondo, two-time NBA champion, broadcasts retirement after 16 seasons

Rajon Rondo introduced on this week’s “All That Smoke” podcast that he is executed enjoying within the NBA.

“I might quite spend time with my youngsters,” Rondo instructed hosts Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson.

Rondo, 38, was a first-round draft choose by the Phoenix Suns out of Kentucky in 2006. He was then dealt that evening to the Boston Celtics with Brian Grant going the opposite means.

Whereas enjoying components of 9 seasons with the Celtics, Rondo received his first NBA title, was a four-time All-Star, made the NBA’s All-Defensive First and Second Groups on two events, and led the league in steals in 2010. Aside from his rookie season, as soon as he turned an everyday within the lineup, he averaged double-digit factors per recreation.

Rondo moved on from Boston to the Dallas Mavericks in Dec. 2014, however his time there ended that season after clashes with head coach Rick Carlisle and strained relationships along with his teammates. It was dangerous sufficient that Rondo was reportedly omitted of the gamers’ playoff share.

Rondo spent the next three seasons on three totally different groups — the Sacramento Kings, Chicago Bulls and New Orleans Pelicans — earlier than becoming a member of the Los Angeles Lakers and serving to them win the 2020 NBA title. Through the run to his second profession championship, he recorded 8.9 factors, 6.6 assists and 4.3 rebounds coming off the bench.

Rondo final performed in 2022 for the Atlanta Hawks and Los Angeles Clippers, bought another experience with the Lakers, and at last, performed with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Rondo instructed Barnes and Jackson that he is again in school as a full-time pupil taking a mixture of on-line and in-person lessons on the College of Kentucky. He left school early to enter the NBA Draft in 2006 and is now ending up his diploma whereas teaching his 12-year-old son.