Rajon Rondo ‘loves’ LeBron despite recent comments from Kevin Garnett

Rajon Rondo is caught between a rhetorical battle being waged by his former Boston Celtics teammate Kevin Garnett against LeBron James from their battles together from earlier in the decade.

Garnett didn’t want to entertain discussions during a recent episode of the Bill Simmons podcast about LeBron’s heroic Game 6 win at Boston in 2012 and instead focused on how the Celtics “broke” LeBron when he was with the Cavaliers in 2010. Garnett’s comments have been making the rounds and bringing back all of those old battles to light.

Rondo was the starting point guard for the Celtics teams that won the 2008 Championship and went to the 2010 NBA Finals, but he’s a Laker now. In addition to that, he and LeBron have talked about sharing a high-level basketball IQ. So when he was asked about LeBron, Rondo said that he “loves” being his teammate.

I thought it was important to clarify whether Rondo does, in fact, like LeBron. He said, "I love LeBron. He’s one of my favorite teammates i’ve ever played for. He’s a very unselfish person."

— Bill Oram (@billoram) December 20, 2019

 

Now that Garnett is out of the league, he has more time to dwell on the opportunities that the Celtics missed on. Garnett is one of the few people that know what it feels like to beat LeBron James in a playoff series in the 2010s, so it’s understandable that he wouldn’t be peachy about it all these years later. Rondo knows that too but as his career has evolved, he may help LeBron cement his legacy even more.