At various points in his NBA career, Rajon Rondo has been an upstart, a malcontent, an innovator, a playoff hero, a champion and an outcast.
We can now add "cautionary tale" to that list, which, considering how recently Rondo was viewed as an elite, star-quality player, is shocking.
Shocking but undeniable, as we now live in a world where the bidding war for a free-agent Rondo wasn't a war at all; the Sacramento Kings grabbed him on a one-year deal with hardly a whiff of reported serious interest from any other teams. An NBA increasingly obsessed with spacing the floor fell out of love with Rondo in a hurry.
Rondo has never been a good shooter, and in his more recent years with the Celtics, he didn't actually improve the offense with his passing, according to NBA.com.
Worst of all, his preferred style of play (which his reputation allowed him to continue long after the stats showed it was suboptimal) involved total ball dominance. Those clinging to the illusion that Rondo was still a valuable player in the modern NBA lost all hope when he flamed out with the Dallas Mavericks this past spr ...
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