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		<title>By: Joe</title>
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		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think Rondo is the better point guard, but I am with Kev, no go on coming here. He is going to want big dollars and he has reputed attitude problems and has been described as uncoachable. &quot;

&quot;Chris Broussard: Rajon Rondo is definitely on the market. I&#039;m told he&#039;s very hard for Doc Rivers to coach, and that although Rondo gets along OK with his teammates, he&#039;s far from a great teammate. The fear in Boston is that if Rondo is this difficult to handle on a rookie-scale salary, he&#039;ll be a monster once he earns big money.

One GM told me, &quot;They won a championship with this guy, and he&#039;s coming off a tremendous playoff performance ... and they&#039;re looking to trade him. That tells you how bad things are.&quot;

From the Celtics blog: http://www.celticsblog.com/2009/6/24/923910/more-rondo-updates</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think Rondo is the better point guard, but I am with Kev, no go on coming here. He is going to want big dollars and he has reputed attitude problems and has been described as uncoachable. &#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Chris Broussard: Rajon Rondo is definitely on the market. I&#8217;m told he&#8217;s very hard for Doc Rivers to coach, and that although Rondo gets along OK with his teammates, he&#8217;s far from a great teammate. The fear in Boston is that if Rondo is this difficult to handle on a rookie-scale salary, he&#8217;ll be a monster once he earns big money.</p>
<p>One GM told me, &#8220;They won a championship with this guy, and he&#8217;s coming off a tremendous playoff performance &#8230; and they&#8217;re looking to trade him. That tells you how bad things are.&#8221;</p>
<p>From the Celtics blog: <a href="http://www.celticsblog.com/2009/6/24/923910/more-rondo-updates" rel="nofollow">http://www.celticsblog.com/2009/6/24/923910/more-rondo-updates</a></p>
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		<title>By: Steve H</title>
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		<dc:creator>Steve H</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Collison has to be the funniest guy in the NBA.  I almost spit coffee all over my desk when I read that MVP comment.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Collison has to be the funniest guy in the NBA.  I almost spit coffee all over my desk when I read that MVP comment.</p>
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		<title>By: J.G.</title>
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		<dc:creator>J.G.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-17172&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;@Royce &lt;/a&gt; 
Yeah, Keith and I had a nice discussion on it.

Pretty much along the same lines of debate, too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-17172" rel="nofollow">@Royce </a><br />
Yeah, Keith and I had a nice discussion on it.</p>
<p>Pretty much along the same lines of debate, too.</p>
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		<title>By: KingGondo</title>
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		<dc:creator>KingGondo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-17148&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;@nick&lt;/a&gt; 
All good points, but I think it&#039;s too early to call Rondo better than Russ just because a) Russ is transitioning to NBA point guard, and hasn&#039;t played PG his entire life unlike Rondo, and b) Russell&#039;s scoring ability has a much higher ceiling than does Rondo&#039;s.  

It&#039;s admittedly tough to compare Russ and Rondo, in spite of their similarities.  But I ultimately see them developing into about the same level of player, just with different styles--Westbrook as a score-first PG, Rondo as more of a pass-first PG.  But it sure won&#039;t hurt Westbrook&#039;s assist numbers to have KD, Harden, and Green to pass to, either.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-17148" rel="nofollow">@nick</a><br />
All good points, but I think it&#8217;s too early to call Rondo better than Russ just because a) Russ is transitioning to NBA point guard, and hasn&#8217;t played PG his entire life unlike Rondo, and b) Russell&#8217;s scoring ability has a much higher ceiling than does Rondo&#8217;s.  </p>
<p>It&#8217;s admittedly tough to compare Russ and Rondo, in spite of their similarities.  But I ultimately see them developing into about the same level of player, just with different styles&#8211;Westbrook as a score-first PG, Rondo as more of a pass-first PG.  But it sure won&#8217;t hurt Westbrook&#8217;s assist numbers to have KD, Harden, and Green to pass to, either.</p>
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		<title>By: Royce</title>
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		<dc:creator>Royce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I believe some of you were having a discussion about this earlier in the week?

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-42-86/Portland-s-Pursuit-of-Paul-Millsap--Sincerity-or-Strategy-.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I believe some of you were having a discussion about this earlier in the week?</p>
<p><a href="http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-42-86/Portland-s-Pursuit-of-Paul-Millsap--Sincerity-or-Strategy-.html" rel="nofollow">http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-42-86/Portland-s-Pursuit-of-Paul-Millsap&#8211;Sincerity-or-Strategy-.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: Andy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>twitter is pretty amazing actually. i mean, freedom fighters in Iran used it to attempt a revolution against Islamic extremists. Plus you can have them sent to your iphone....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>twitter is pretty amazing actually. i mean, freedom fighters in Iran used it to attempt a revolution against Islamic extremists. Plus you can have them sent to your iphone&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Kyle</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kyle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Case in point, right after I post it

http://twitter.com/nickcollison4/status/2672845567

&quot;my daughter is addicted to chapstick,me,her mom,our dog Mort,and Diego will be waiting in her room when she wakes from nap for intervention&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Case in point, right after I post it</p>
<p><a href="http://twitter.com/nickcollison4/status/2672845567" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/nickcollison4/status/2672845567</a></p>
<p>&#8220;my daughter is addicted to chapstick,me,her mom,our dog Mort,and Diego will be waiting in her room when she wakes from nap for intervention&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Kyle</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kyle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And BTW, I HATE twitter haha, but Nick Collison is so incredible at using it that it makes me contemplate getting one so I can follow his and comment on his posts. He is the one person on that site that I check daily and actually laugh out loud regularly</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And BTW, I HATE twitter haha, but Nick Collison is so incredible at using it that it makes me contemplate getting one so I can follow his and comment on his posts. He is the one person on that site that I check daily and actually laugh out loud regularly</p>
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		<title>By: Kyle</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kyle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote cite=&quot;#commentbody-17129&quot;&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-17129&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Royce &lt;/a&gt; :&lt;/strong&gt;Great answer by KD about Twitter:
“Yeah, I love it. When I first started out on it I didn’t really respond to people. I just went on it to see what people were saying about me, you know? But now I’m a lot more active on it — I reply a lot more. I realized a simple “hello” can really make someone’s day. It’s cool to get a direct response from a basketball player, and it’s a great way to connect with fans. I Tweeted Keri Hilson the other day and she actually wrote back! I was so excited. I’m sure that’s what other people feel like when they hear back from their favorite athlete or celebrity. It’s fun.”
Good grief he’s down to earth and humble.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
You should read some of his tweets. He was begging Keri Hilson to say hi, even tweeting people who were friends with her to get her to say hi haha, makes you realize these guys are just college age males that have their celebrity crushes like the rest of us.</description>
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<strong><a href="#comment-17129" rel="nofollow">Royce </a> :</strong>Great answer by KD about Twitter:<br />
“Yeah, I love it. When I first started out on it I didn’t really respond to people. I just went on it to see what people were saying about me, you know? But now I’m a lot more active on it — I reply a lot more. I realized a simple “hello” can really make someone’s day. It’s cool to get a direct response from a basketball player, and it’s a great way to connect with fans. I Tweeted Keri Hilson the other day and she actually wrote back! I was so excited. I’m sure that’s what other people feel like when they hear back from their favorite athlete or celebrity. It’s fun.”<br />
Good grief he’s down to earth and humble.</p></blockquote>
<p>You should read some of his tweets. He was begging Keri Hilson to say hi, even tweeting people who were friends with her to get her to say hi haha, makes you realize these guys are just college age males that have their celebrity crushes like the rest of us.</p>
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		<title>By: nick</title>
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		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-17151&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;@Kev &lt;/a&gt; 
this is true. again, i said earlier that i didn&#039;t think we should get him, and the reason was mostly chemistry. for boston to want to trade him is just insane, so he clearly has his issues. but as a basketball player, he is a stud</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-17151" rel="nofollow">@Kev </a><br />
this is true. again, i said earlier that i didn&#8217;t think we should get him, and the reason was mostly chemistry. for boston to want to trade him is just insane, so he clearly has his issues. but as a basketball player, he is a stud</p>
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