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Doc Rivers (AP) In addition to reminding everyone that Avery Bradley‘s “a ways away” from returning in his weekly appearance on WEEI’s Dennis & Callahan Morning Show, Celtics coach Doc Rivers discussed Rajon Rondo at length.
On the Kris Humphries scuffle and ensuing suspension: “Rondo understands that we need him. I called it like I saw it … and Rondo almost said the same thing: He said, ?Coach, I didn?t go in there to have a fight. I went in there to push him off Kevin [Garnett] and the next thing you know he grabs my arm, and then I pushed back and it escalated.’ He said, ?I never intended to fight, that?s not what I did. I was just trying to push him off Kevin.?”
On whether Rondo really went to Mexico: ?I have no idea. I really don?t. I don?t ever check. He?s a grown man, and he wasn?t in our locker room. I did say, ‘Go where you want, do what you want, just keep working out and watching us play.’ And he did those things.
“It may not have been a bad time, but it was an expensive time.?
On the point guard’s public vs. private persona: ?Rondo with his teammates never shuts up. He?s loud, they laugh, they argue all the time — sports arguments are what you?d call it, debates where they are laughing — so he has a very good personality, and then he has the personality that you see as well. He has both of those.?
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