Rajon Rondo

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Rajon Rondo

Rondo with the New Orleans Pelicans in 2017

No. 9 – Los Angeles Lakers

Position Point guard

League NBA

Personal information

Born February 22, 1986 (age 34)

Louisville, Kentucky

Nationality American
Listed height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)

Listed weight 180 lb (82 kg)

Career information

High school Eastern (Middletown, Kentucky)

Oak Hill Academy

(Mouth of Wilson, Virginia)

College Kentucky (2004–2006)

NBA draft 2006 / Round: 1 / Pick: 21st overall

Selected by the Phoenix Suns

Playing career 2006–present

Career history

2006–2014 Boston Celtics

2014–2015 Dallas Mavericks

2015–2016 Sacramento Kings

2016–2017 Chicago Bulls

2017–2018 New Orleans Pelicans

2018–present Los Angeles Lakers

Career highlights and awards

 NBA champion (2008)

 4× NBA All-Star (2010–2013)
  All-NBA Third Team (2012)

 2× NBA All-Defensive First Team (2010, 2011)

 2× NBA All-Defensive Second Team (2009, 2012)

 3× NBA assists leader (2012, 2013, 2016)

 NBA steals leader (2010)

 NBA All-Rookie Second Team (2007)

 Second-team Parade All-American (2004)

Stats at NBA.com

Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

Rajon Pierre Rondo (born February 22, 1986) is an American

professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball
Association (NBA). Rondo played two years of college basketball for the Kentucky
Wildcats before he was drafted 21st overall by the Phoenix Suns in the 2006 NBA draft.
He was subsequently traded to the Celtics, where he played a supporting role during his
rookie season. Rondo, a four-time NBA All-Star, had led the league in assists per game
three times (2012, 2013, and 2016). He was named to the All-NBA Third Team in 2011–
12 and has earned four NBA All-Defensive Team honors, twice on the First Team
(2009–10 and 2010–11). During his time in Boston, Rondo helped the Celtics advance
to the NBA Finals in 2008 and 2010, winning a championship in 2008 as the team's
starting point guard. Rondo has long been known as an elite facilitator in the NBA,
ranking fourth in Celtics history in assists and third in steals. He is also considered a
stat-sheet stuffer,[1] ranking 11th in NBA history for triple-doubles with 32 in the regular
season,[2] to go with 10 in the playoffs.[3][4]
After 8½ seasons with the Celtics, Rondo was traded to the Dallas Mavericks in
December 2014. A tumultuous five-month stint ensued, and in 2015, Rondo joined
the Sacramento Kings. In 2016, he joined the Chicago Bulls, before joining the New
Orleans Pelicans in 2017 and the Lakers in 2018.

Contents

 1Early life
 2High school career
 3College career
 4Professional career
o 4.1Boston Celtics (2006–2014)
 4.1.12006 NBA draft
 4.1.2Rookie season
 4.1.32007–08 season
 4.1.42008–09 season
 4.1.52009–10 season
  4.1.62010–11 season
 4.1.72011–12 season
 4.1.82012–13 season
 4.1.92013–14 season
 4.1.102014–15 season
o 4.2Dallas Mavericks (2014–2015)
o 4.3Sacramento Kings (2015–2016)
o 4.4Chicago Bulls (2016–2017)
o 4.5New Orleans Pelicans (2017–2018)
o 4.6Los Angeles Lakers (2018–present)
 5Career statistics
o 5.1NBA
 5.1.1Regular season
 5.1.2Playoffs
o 5.2College
 6Awards and honors
 7See also
 8References
 9External links

Early life
Rondo was born on February 22, 1986 in Louisville, Kentucky, to Amber Rondo.[5] He
has three siblings: Dymon, William and Anton.[6] He had little contact with his father, who
left his family when he was seven years old.[6] To support the family, his mother worked
the third shift at Philip Morris USA, a tobacco company.[6] Rondo was first interested
in football, before his mother steered him towards basketball because she felt that the
sport would be less punishing on his skinny frame.[6]

High school career

After Rondo became serious about basketball, he attended Louisville's Eastern High
School for three years. During his junior year at Eastern High School, he averaged
27.9 points, 10.0 rebounds and 7.5 assists which earned him a spot on the All-State
honors and was named the 7th Region Player of the Year. He transferred to
Virginia's Oak Hill Academy for his senior year where he averaged 21.0 points per
game (ppg), 3.0 rebounds per game (rpg) and 12.0 assists per game (apg) and finished
the 2003–04 season with a 38–0 record.[7] In his senior year at Oak Hill Academy,
Rondo broke Jeff McInnis's single-season school record of 303 assists, while averaging
a double-double. There, he included two efforts of 27 assists and a single-game school
record of 31, merely four away from the all-time national record. [7] He also had a 55-point
game in high-school, second highest all-time in Oak Hill Academy, surpassed only by
Calvin Duncan with 61.[8] Rondo was named to the McDonald's All-American Team in
2004 and scored a total of 14 points, 4 assists and 4 rebounds in the all-star game. [9] He
also participated in the 2004 Jordan Capital Classic game, logging 12 points, 5 assists
and 4 steals.[10] Rondo was also named a second-team Parade All-American. He ended
his career as Oak Hill Academy's all-time assists leader in a single season with 494
assists, surpassing McInnis.[11]