We don’t need no NBA: Amazing Rajon Rondo basketball wizardry (video)
Oct 14, 2011, 11:02 AM EDT
You can take away the NBA but you definitely can’t take away basketball. This is the lesson we’ve learned in the past months from the likes of Kevin Durant, who has spent the summer touring the world dominating whatever basketball competition he faces, like the time he dropped 66 points on his first ever visit to Rucker Park.
Rajon Rondo has been known to wow the crowds on occasion during his stint as an NBA superstar, but now that those days are temporarily gone what’s a basketball maestro supposed to do in his free time? Why, play more basketball of course, as players have set up impromptu leagues all over the country. In this particular league, Rajon Rondo has joined the ‘Big Blue All-Stars’, which is a superteam of former University of Kentucky Wildcats with assorted friends they’ve picked up along the way. They’ve basically played a bunch of exhibitions where they roll up and rail whatever team they’re up against. They even got Bill Raftery to do the color commentary. Onions.
Well, Rondo showed up and promptly whipped out a behind the back no look alley oop from the three point line to Kenneth Faried for a monstrous slam dunk. Not bad for an amateur.
With the NBA still locked up by a labor impasse, Rondo has taken his show to the Big Blue All-Stars, a collection of former University of Kentucky Wildcats and NBA players who are playing in a series of exhibition games against local colleges throughout October. Rex Chapman is coaching so you know this is legit.
On Tuesday, in a game against Union College, Rondo tossed the best assist of the lockout, an over-the-head, no-look, one-handed, alley-oop pass to Denver Nuggets draft pick Kenneth Faried, who slammed it in cleanly. He set the pass up beautifully, walking the ball back to the top of the key as if to reset the offense after a failed look in transition. The defense relaxed ever so slightly and bang. Two points.
Rajon Rondo throws over-the-head alley-oop pass [Eye On Basketball]
Rajon Rondo Goes No-Look, Over The Head, Makes Us Demand The NBA Come Back [Deadspin]
