Rondo is very injury prone. Stuff like this is inevitable regardless of how it happened. His brittle body has a tendency to break down in various ways. He's missed like 100 games over the past two seasons.
I still don't classify him as injury prone. If he gets another major injury in the next 2 years, then I will.
last four years Rondo has missed 13 games, 13 games, 44 games, and 52 games. That is 3 separate injuries and he now his 4th in 5 years. That is pretty much the definition of injury prone.
Two of those 3 injuries were a sprained ankle and a sprained wrist, both of which kept him out of the lineup for 2 weeks or so. "Injury prone" is a stretch.
Rondo isn't "Injury Prone"?!? Sorry, but Rondo is the definition of injury prone. I don't care if it was a sprained ankle or a sprained brain, he has missed a crapload of games. For the record, a crapload = 13+13+44+52+ whatever 6-8 wks amounts to this year.
Before Rondo's knee injury he'd played for about 6 and a half seasons plus over 90 playoff games. He'd never had an injury more serious than a sprain, he'd never missed as many as 10 games in a row due to injury and he'd only missed more than 5 straight games twice. His current injury might not cost him more than a few games either. That's hardly the definition of injury prone.
You also forgot the dislocated elbow in May 2011 that would've put him out of action for a long time. I agree with you earlier in his career he was a model of health, but things change. The fact remains that he's now had 3 significant injuries in a little over 3 years and recent history gives him that injury prone label. Same thing happened with Bird. He was basically an iron man his first 9 years and then his body started breaking down.
While more than a month and a half has gone by since he dislocated his elbow, Rondo still needs more time before he will be able to get on the court and play basketball again this offseason.
“He’s not 100 percent yet,’’ said president of basketball operations Danny Ainge on Wednesday afternoon. “He’s probably about four weeks away from playing basketball full speed. But he can do some training and conditioning right now.’’
Rondo missed about 5 minutes with the elbow. And I don't know if you ever saw Bird play, but it really wasn't the same as what's going on with Rondo, unless you don't see a difference between a broken bone in your hand and Bird's back injury.
Rondo's injury allegedly occurred while taking a shower, Bird's while he was doing yardwork.
Not to put words in BBall Tim's mouth, but one is an isolated fluke injury and one is a chronic career compromising/ending ailment. Please tell me you're playing dumb to win an argument.
The point being that both occurred in a fluky fashion. Rondo should be back in a couple of months, but that's what the Wolves thought about Love a couple of years ago too.
The fact remains that Rondo has had 3 significant injuries since 2011. Did he play in 2011? Yes. Was he effective? No. Should he have even played? No. So is his body beginning to breakdown after all the minutes he's logged? Possibly, but to rule it out completely, as Tim often does on all things Rondo, speaks to his bias.
I don't think the issue is my bias. It's either your memory or your reading comprehension. I'm not sure which, but then again I don't really care.
Tim, you really are a funny dude. You get so worked up over the little guy. Relax, you'll live longer.
I don't get that worked up, although you're frequently foaming at the mouth when I refute points you attempt to make.
You honestly think so? 
As much as you claim that Tim is Rondo's blinkie, I see a lot of your posts in this thread as arguing to argue.
Rondo has had (1) serious career threatening injury - his ACL. It takes up a majority of the games missed in his career. He probably won't miss that many games this year from the broken hand and he basically missed none from his dislocated elbow. So your grandstanding to back up your 'injury-prone' label for Rondo speaks as much to your bias as you claim is coming from Tim. The claims that the C's are faking, hiding, or taking part in keeping him out for games to get smart playing time is just plain dumb.
Rondo may never be the same player again after the acl injury. We'll have to wait and see. Hopefully he has a good year and gets back to a high level of play.
Are you insinuating that just because a player doesn't suffer career threatening injuries we should be dismissive of them all together? Fact is he has been getting injured and in the last few years it's been at a higher rate than before. We simply don't know if his body is breaking down or not, but it would be foolish to think it wasn't at least a possibility.
I never said the Celtics are faking his injury. However, it would greatly behoove all parties involved to say that Rondo slipped in the shower, rather than him be hurt on a trampoline or punching something in a bout of rage.
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