NBA Champion Rajon Rondo thought the New York Knicks drafted him

I was drafted the 21st pick, but leading up into the draft, right after college, we I think we lost to Connecticut and Tubby and I that particular year I was I got suspended. He suspended me five games. He suspended you for five games. I was suspended about. Yeah, I lost my starting position leading up to the draft was I was kind of mentally messed up because again, I’m thinking I’m supposed to be one pick because my high school class, we had 14 guys come straight out of high school. White, Josh, Robert Swift, Sebastian Tips, a lot of a lot of guys. We had a lot of guys to go. So for me going into college, I feel like I was already behind. So draft night, I’m on the phone with my agent. You know, I don’t go to New York. It’s the longest way in my career, in my life, not career, in my life. And the crazy thing is that the 20th pick, his name was Ronaldo Balkman. So I hear the R annunciation to the Knicks cuz they told me they were going to pick me as well. So they go Ronaldo Balkman and I’m about to stand up and my heart drop like damn, it’s like and then you don’t know that you’re going next until a couple minutes later my agent was like, Phoenix going to pick you and then you’re going to get traded to the Celtics. So, you know, I’m thankful that it did work out to where I went to Boston. Didn’t play my rookie year as well. And I was funny. I was talking to Jericho the other day and I was telling him, I was like, “Hey, be ready, young fell.” He was like, “Doc told me to be ready last two games.” I was like, “Funny story is he used to tell me that all the time as a rookie.” So, I’m going call my agent like, “You know, get me out of here. Trade me. I want to this, do that, this.” And my mentor at the time, Doug Bby, and my agent, Bill Duff, was like, you know, cream rises to the top. So, stay the course, continue to work. And then a year later, seven players got traded to Minnesota. You know, I’m become one of the second youngest point guards behind Magic to win a championship at a young age.

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  4. Trivia: Renaldo Balkman played in the Philippines Basketball Associations as import and choke his teammate during the live telecast game.😂

  16. Isiah Thomas did a pretty bad job as GM of the Knicks. But he did have some draft night steals.

    David Lee (30th overall)
    Trevor Ariza (2nd Round)

    Damn if only he got Rondo too. Then Knicks wouldn’t have spent the next 20 years looking for a point guard until they finally got Jalen Brunson.

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