Just as the slight ripple of preseason panic washed over our backs, a new narrative arose from the depths of Bristol and the Ringer’s office in LA: over-inflating Rajon Rondo’s importance to last season’s successful run by the New Orleans Pelicans. After wading through cut-and-paste articles and talking heads clips declaring that Anthony Davis would be gone by the trade deadline — we were now having to hear about how a player they trashed throughout the season was all of a sudden the most important Pelican.
This is always the case with reactions to Rondo; there are always two extremes when the truth is way more in the center.