Current:Home > FinanceRobert Brown|Two-time NBA champion point guard Rajon Rondo makes retirement official -TrueNorth Capital Hub
Robert Brown|Two-time NBA champion point guard Rajon Rondo makes retirement official
Charles Langston View
Date:2025-04-08 07:46:53
Four-time NBA All-Star Rajon Rondo has officially hung up his sneakers.
Though he hasn't played in two seasons,Robert Brown the 38-year-old Rondo declared Monday on the "All That Smoke" podcast, "I'm done."
Rondo, a first-round pick out of Kentucky (21st overall) in the 2006 NBA draft, won the first of his two NBA titles with the Boston Celtics in his second season. He was an All-Star every year from 2009-10 to 2012-13, leading the league in assists twice and being named to the All-Defensive first team twice during that span.
After playing nine seasons in Boston, Rondo bounced around the league, playing for eight other teams during his 16-year career. He won his second NBA title in 2020 as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers before finishing up with the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2021-22 season.
"I'd rather spend time with my kids," Rondo told podcast hosts Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson.
veryGood! (3)
Related
- Tarte Shape Tape Concealer Sells Once Every 4 Seconds: Get 50% Off Before It's Gone
- Dangerous weekend weather forecast: Atmospheric river; millions face flooding risk
- Kate Cox can't get abortion for now, Texas Supreme Court court says, halting judge's OK
- NFL playoff clinching scenarios: Cowboys, Eagles, 49ers can secure spots in Week 14
- All That You Wanted to Know About She’s All That
- Embattled wolves gain a new frontier in Democratic Colorado. The move is stoking political tensions
- Recognizing the signs of postpartum depression
- Recognizing the signs of postpartum depression
- What were Tom Selleck's juicy final 'Blue Bloods' words in Reagan family
- AP PHOTOS: On Antarctica’s ice and in its seas, penguins in a warming world
Ranking
- Questlove charts 50 years of SNL musical hits (and misses)
- Vermont Sheriff’s Association calls for sheriff who kicked shackled prisoner to resign
- Former Titans TE Frank Wycheck, key cog in 'Music City Miracle,' dies after fall at home
- Despite deflating OT loss, Rams don't hear death knell for playoff hopes
- Scoot flight from Singapore to Wuhan turns back after 'technical issue' detected
- Snow blankets northern China, closing roads and schools and suspending train service
- NFL playoff picture Week 14: Cowboys seize NFC East lead, Eagles slide
- Worried your kid might have appendicitis? Try the jump test
Recommendation
Newly elected West Virginia lawmaker arrested and accused of making terroristic threats
Former New Jersey Senate president launches 2025 gubernatorial bid
Volunteers flock to Israel to harvest fruit and vegetables as foreign farm workers flee during Israel-Hamas war
A day of 2 prime ministers in Poland begins the delayed transition to a centrist, pro-EU government
Elon Musk's skyrocketing net worth: He's the first person with over $400 billion
A rare piebald cow elk is spotted in Colorado by a wildlife biologist: See pictures
Kate Cox can't get abortion for now, Texas Supreme Court court says, halting judge's OK
Extraordinarily rare white leucistic gator with twinkling blue eyes born in Florida