When Rajon Rondo went through a two-week quarantine at home, got on a plane to leave his family and head for one of the biggest hotspots of our current global pandemic, and sat in his hotel room to quarantine or another 36 hours — while getting coronavirus tests the whole time — he probably expected to be with his Lakers teammates for longer than two days after finishing his isolation.
But thanks to a right thumb fracture that he sustained in the Lakers’ second group practice of the restart that will sideline him for 6-8 weeks, Rondo will instead have to leave the bubble again to undergo surgery, and then start a rehab process on his own before he’s able to rejoin his team.