Boston Celtics
Rondo, 40, spent final season on Doc Rivers’s employees with the Bucks.
Former Celtics level guard Rajon Rondo is amongst a number of finalists for the Pelicans’ head coach opening, in keeping with a report from The Athletic.
“New Orleans has been deliberating over finalists Darvin Ham (a Bucks affiliate head coach underneath Rivers), Steve Hetzel (Brooklyn assistant), Sean Sweeney (San Antonio affiliate head coach) and Rajon Rondo (a training affiliate with the Bucks),” The Athletic’s Sam Amick wrote. “(Jamahl) Mosley has lengthy been believed to be a potential candidate if he turned out there, but it surely’s unclear as of but if he’ll be added to the listing.”
Rondo, 40, spent this previous season on the Bucks teaching employees underneath Doc Rivers. Rivers, who was lately elected to the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame, stepped down after Milwaukee completed 32-50.
Rondo performed the primary half of his 16-year NBA profession with the Celtics, making 4 All-Star appearances. He received a pair of championships — one with the Celtics and the opposite with the Lakers.
Rondo told The Boston Globe in 2013 that he stored the potential of teaching at the back of his thoughts throughout his taking part in days.
“I watched Doc [Rivers] for seven years,” Rondo stated on the time. “I watched how he dealt with sure gamers, how he dealt with sure conditions, the way you deal with a four-game dropping streak, the way you deal with a 10-game profitable streak.”
Brad Stevens stated they have been having conversations about Rondo’s teaching potential again then, and talked about that Rondo had drawn up some good performs.
Quite a few individuals have stated through the years that they might see Rondo changing into a coach sooner or later. Two years in the past, LeBron James said he found it to be “weird” that Rondo was not already coaching at a excessive degree.
Kevin Garnett stated Rondo’s basketball IQ and skill to narrate to gamers are a few the qualities that would lead him to success.
“Rondo not solely has the intelligence, however the information,” Garnett stated throughout a recent appearance on KG Certified. “He has grown the endurance. Rondo has a younger son, shoutout to Pierre, who’s a youthful model of Rondo.
“We needed to have a sure degree of endurance with Rondo’s development, education him, and serving to him develop into the participant everyone knows him to be. He received a few rings and had a dope profession. So, I feel that is nice timing for the place the younger Pelicans are too.”
The Pelicans completed 26-56 final season. They’ve missed the playoffs in six of the final eight seasons.
Rondo has a 12 months of expertise underneath his belt, together with a wealth of expertise as a participant. Now he’s into account for one of many league’s head teaching openings.
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