Rajon Rondo
Rajon Pierre Rondo ( born February 22, 1986 in Louisville, Kentucky ) is an American professional basketball player and playmaker of the Boston Celtics, with whom he was 2008 champion.
Career
Career
Rondo grew up as one of four children of Amber Rondo. With his father he had no contact since he left the family when Rajon was just seven years old. In order to feed their family, his mother worked in the third layer in the manufacturer of tobacco products, Philip Morris USA. Rajon Rondo first played football until his mother steered towards basketball because she was afraid he would get hurt in football, due to its rather slight build. Rajon basketball began to be taken seriously and played for the team from Louisville Eastern High School, where he was able to notch up his first year already 27.9 points, 10 rebounds and 7.5 assists per game. In his second year, he moved to the Oak Hill Academy, where he was able to break the school's record for most assists in a season. He also scored 31 assists in a single game 55 points in another game. Rondo was invited to the 2004 McDonald's All_American team and scored in the local All-Star Game 14 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists. Rajon Rondo led his basketball career for two years at the University of Kentucky gone, but never made it to the NCAA Final Four. However, he set a school record with 87 steals internal - most steals in a season in the history of the university.
Boston Celtics (since 2006)
2006 Rondo was drafted as the first point guard in the NBA Draft in 2006 with the 21st pick by the Phoenix Suns and exchanged shortly afterwards with Brian Grant against a Erstrundenpick to the Boston Celtics. On July 4, 2006 he officially signed his contract with the Celtics. In his first season, Rondo came off the bench and has shared the minutes of game time on the field with Sebastian Telfair and Delonte West. By the end of the season he sat down, however, easily and launched a total of 25 game at games. Since he did not have too good jump shot, he relied more on his speed and collected his points on layups or so-called teardrops. He was elected to the All- Rookie Second Team at the end of the season. The Celtics did not make it with their total of 24 victories, however, in the NBA playoffs.
Even before the next season began, gave the Celtics both Telfair and West from by Trade, which Rondo 's role as a starting player was fixed. With All-Stars such as Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen around, he quickly became a very well-established, more confident player on the NBA game. As a reward, he was elected as a sophomore in the T -Mobile Rookie Challenge. In his 77 games in the regular season, he had an average of 10.6 points, 5.1 assists and 4.2 rebounds per game. Thanks to the signings of superstars like Garnett and Allen and improving the performance of existing players managed the Celtics as a team placed first in the Eastern Conference in the NBA playoffs. In his playoff debut on April 20, 2008 against the Atlanta Hawks Rondo scored 15 points, 9 assists and 2 steals. The Celtics prevailed against the Hawks, the Cavaliers and the Pistons and thus came to the NBA Finals. After six games against the Los Angeles Lakers, the Celtics secured the NBA championship. The coach of the Lakers, Phil Jackson, Rondo the "star" called the sixth and decisive game of the finals series.
In his third NBA season, 2008-2009, presented the Celtics to an NBA record for the best start to the season and also scored a club record with 19 wins in a row. Although everything went well, Rondo had to often listen to criticism because his jump shot left to be desired still left. His first triple -double he scored this season in a game against the Indiana Pacers with 16 points, 17 assists and 13 rebounds. On 17 April 2009 he became the first NBA player who has ever signed a promotional contract with Red Bull. Although they had to do without this season due to an injury to Kevin Garnett, the Celtics qualified as the second- placed team in the Eastern Conference for the playoffs. In one of the most spectacular Erstrundenserien who have the NBA playoffs ever produced, the Celtics sat narrowly against the Chicago Bulls, had to admit defeat after seven games then the Orlando Magic, however. Throughout the playoffs Rondo scored almost a triple -double on average: 16.9 points, 9.8 assists and 9.7 rebounds.
During the NBA 2009-2010 season Rondo scored Karrierebestleistungen in points ( 13.7), assists ( 9.8) and steals (2.3) per game. On November 2, 2009, he signed a five -year contract worth a total of $ 55 million with the Celtics. He introduced this season, two new club records: most assists in a season ( 794 ) and most steals in a season (189). In the playoffs, the Celtics prevailed in five games against the Miami Heat. In the second round they went past the Cleveland Cavaliers, where Rondo set new records on or aufstellte: In the second game he set the club record for assists in a playoff game (19) and in the fourth game, he scored a playoff Career High with 29 points and 18 rebounds. The 13 assists he had also posed a triple -double, but were no playoff Career. Then the Celtics against the Orlando Magic prevailed and were again the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals against. This time they had to the team from Los Angeles, however, admit defeat after seven games.
In August 2010, he should first participate with the national team of the United States at the World Cup, then pulled back but for family reasons.
The following NBA 2010-2011 season, on 29 October 2010, Rondo scored another triple -double with 10 points, 10 rebounds and since 1996 did not reach 24 assists in a home game against the New York Knicks. Rondo started the season on furiously, setting a new NBA record for most assists scored in the first five games of the season. With 82 assists, he had NBA legends like John Stockton and Magic Johnson behind. Rajons record hunt was in early December also slowed by a sprained left ankle with minor injuries and shortly thereafter. After 7 Play Pause at the end of the year he competed in the victory against the Toronto Raptors on January 2, 2011 by again. Two games after his return, on 5 January 2011 against the San Antonio Spurs, which is a top game between Conference- leaders was at that time and went out in favor of the Celtics 105-103, Rajon scored the eleventh triple -double of his career with 12 points, 10 rebounds and 23 assists.
Rondo started the first three season games with at least 10 assists (13, 11, 12). Since John Stockton 2001/ 02 ( 14, 11, 14) that has managed no more. In his last 24 regular -season games of the season 2011/12 Rajon has always delivered at least 10 assists. 13 more games in a row were added in the 2012/13 season. The series started on 11 March 2012 at the Lakers and ended abruptly on 28 November 2012 after he was disqualified after a tussle against the Brooklyn Nets. The longest series of NBA history succeeded Earvin Johnson with 46 matches (1982 / 83-1983 / 84). He also holds the record with 44 games since the start of the season (1983 /84). 1990/91 get Magic another 15 games in a row. Cross season Rondo has thus after 37 games ended the series. He is together with John Stockton (1988 /89 - 1989/90 ) to # 2 on the leaderboards. In the season 2011/12 Rondo reached the conference finals with the Celtics. There they were subject to the eventual champions Miami Heat in seven games.
On January 25, 2013, Rondo pulled the game against the Atlanta Hawks to a torn ACL and fell for the rest of the season.
Awards
- NBA Championship: 2008
- 4x NBA All -Star: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
- All- NBA Team: Third team: 2012
- 2nd team: 2007