SI Gets Rondo'd

beating Jason Williams to that loose ball, this one isn’t half bad either

As your magazine continues it’s slow spiral to irrelevancy, your jinx continues to stay strong.

Yes, first thing I thought of when I saw this (even before I read the post) was the SI jinx and how that explains last night. Does the jinx apply to one game only? Not the rest of the series surely.

I was guessing Baron Davis, but he hasn’t been in the playoffs since 1962.

this pic is tuff big ups 2 Rondooooooooooooooooooo lol now lets finish this series off in 5

Nothing but bad. Rondo does NOT need this going to his head. The kid was hyper-focused, determined, hungry. Who knows what’s going on in his (very young) head now? How great does he think he is now? Nothing but bad. Bad, bad, bad.

seriously, rondo could not have played much worse last night. he did nothing the whole game, either on D or on O. He let nelson get into the paint at will and he never drove the ball. just a wasted night by rondo.

It’s kind of funny but everything I read on this thread seems borderline negative in relation to Rondo. For those of you who are younger, listen up, you will not see another point of Rondo’s ability in Boston green for a long, long time. Enjoy this kid while you can because points of his ability come along rarely. Rondo deserves this cover and to heck with some so called ‘jinx’. Tomorrow night will prove that!!

- Looking at the potential bad effect: Do we really believe that Rondo will be SO affected by being on the cover that his game will suffer significantly. Uh uh. Not likely.

- There is, however, a potential good effect: Combined with Rondo’s recent iconic play (diving to the floor), Rondo, and the Celtics perforce with him, have suddenly become important to the NBA. Rondo and his team are suddenly REPRESENTING the NBA. To the extent that this makes a practical difference in game results – and opinions will vary about that — this can only help the Cs. How much difference does it make? Take your pick. Could be huge, could be nothing. It’s probably not nothing. Whatever it is — I’d rather have it than not.

Like he hasn’t known about the cover? He deserves it, so get off it. He’ll be fine.

You really want to worry about Rondo? Worry about the muscle spasms. At least that’s a real problem.

http://www.sportsgrid.com/nba/how-rajon-rondo-turned-into-the-nbas-best-point-guard/

http://www.sportsgrid.com/power-grid/nba-players/rajon-rondo/

Also that site is pretty cool, I recommend you check it out.

Lets just hope the SI curse passes us by on this one. So much hype around this team….this ranking even has the celts above the lake show in hype ratings:
http://www.sportsgrid.com/power-grid/nba-teams/