{"id":11453,"date":"2022-01-13T05:06:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T05:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/2022\/01\/13\/cavs-rajon-rondo-still-willing-to-play-at-high-level\/"},"modified":"2022-01-13T05:06:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T05:06:25","slug":"cavs-rajon-rondo-still-willing-to-play-at-high-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/cavs-rajon-rondo-still-willing-to-play-at-high-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavs\u2019 Rajon Rondo still willing to play at high level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Rajon Rondo joined the Cleveland Cavaliers after a trade from the Los Angeles Lakers and wants to make the difference for his new team.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The veteran guard had a limited role with the Lakers. Yet, he admitted he still wants to compete at a high level and have a significant role in Cleveland.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still want to compete at a high level. I\u2019m still a competitive person. I was fine in LA. But, at the same time, for my mental sake, I do think I will be a lot happier because I do like to compete and be involved.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>And here I will get an opportunity. It\u2019s all about perspective. I always look at things a couple of different ways. But for me, personally, I wasn\u2019t going crazy on the bench over there. But, I was itching to play and have more of an impact,\u201d Rajon Rondo told Marc Spears of The Undefeated.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In 939 games in his 16-year NBA career, Rajon Rondo is averaging 9.8 points, 8.0 assists and 4.6 rebounds.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI\u2019m feeling young. I feel like the \u2018OG\u2019 or \u2018Triple OG\u2019 to some guys. I played in Darius Garland\u2019s hometown of Gary, Indiana, back in high school and I think he was barely born,\u201d New <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cavaliers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cavaliers<\/a> guard <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RajonRondo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RajonRondo<\/a>, 35, to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheUndefeated?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheUndefeated<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/dU5JKkbr2i <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nba?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#nba<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/lakers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#lakers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpears) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarcJSpears\/status\/1481330697352581120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The post Cavs&#8217; Rajon Rondo still willing to play at high level appeared first on TalkBasket.net.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/talkbasket\/rss?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/talkbasket\/rss?i=I5wG3z5BYYg:YUGhi1g3K54:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/talkbasket\/rss?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/talkbasket\/rss?i=I5wG3z5BYYg:YUGhi1g3K54:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajon Rondo joined the Cleveland Cavaliers after a trade from the Los Angeles Lakers and wants to make the difference for his new team. The veteran guard had a limited role with the Lakers. Yet, he admitted he still wants to compete at a high level and have a significant role in Cleveland. \u201cI still<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[1559,611,612,337,562],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11454,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11453\/revisions\/11454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}