Rajon Rondo is an interesting guy. He marches to the beat of his own drummer and can be difficult from time to time.
He’s a bit of an enigma on the court and off.
But I had no idea what kind of madman he is until I read this ESPN feature. I mean, it is unbelievable.
The best part?
Rondo maintains a close circle, but during his eight-plus seasons in Boston, he was as close with Doo as anyone. Doo always sought activities to keep Rondo engaged — golf, tennis, a home run derby with softballs, pool, pingpong, throwing footballs off the wall into a trash can, unorthodox workouts, printing out math equations and racing to solve them first, trying to top each other in Lumosity brain games, designed to improve cognitive abilities. “If you can’t keep up with him up here,” Doo says, pointing to his head, “he won’t listen to you.”
Provide him with bad information? “Your credibility is shot,” Rondo says. And if he doesn’t buy the narrative, even off the floor, he’ll bail, he’ll disengage, as he does on movies whose storylines stray from logic, even for a moment. His last theater walkout: The Equalizer, starring Denzel Washington. “I didn’t understand how he got the cop’s number,” Rondo says, referencing a certain scene. “It was just too much.” He recently watched the movie again to see if he could stomach it. He couldn’t.
Boom. You’re roasted, writers of The Equalizer.
That is literally the worst possible way to watch movies. If you’re going to walk out of every film that has a plot hole, you’re not going to make it through many films. Suspending your sense of disbelief is sorta part of the deal when it comes to cinema.
Would love to get a look at Rondo’s favorite motion pictures. Truly a man with discerning tastes.
[H/T: Ball Don’t Lie]