It's info that those in Beantown will find wicked "hawd" to take. Overshadowing the Celtics out-lasting the Heat in double-overtime yesterday was the news announced after halftime, but not broken to the Boston players until the game ended, that prodigious passer Rajon Rondo will miss the rest of the season with an ACL tear in his right knee. Rondo is the league leader in assists and triple doubles; in fact, he posted one in the same game he suffered the injury. Prior to Sunday's win, the Celtic's were on a season-worst six-game skid and are trying not to slip out of the eighth seed. If the standings stayed the same in the East, Boston would face Miami in the first round, which is sooner than the C's want to see the squad they squared off against in the conference finals last postseason. Without their floor foreman, the Celtics Rondon't stand a chance.
LeBron James and his Lincoln-looking beard toured the Lincoln Bedroom today, as President Barack Obama, sworn in for a second term one week ago, hosted the Heat at the White House to honor the reigning champs. The Commander-in-Chief, who was given an autographed ball and a jersey emblazoned with his surname and the symbolic number 44*, congratulated the team, but the West Winger worked in some zingers, calling Mike Miller "broke down" and Juwan Howard "grandpa," although he resisted the urge to say either moved slower than Congress when he proposes a piece of legislation, because that certainly would've elicited an eye-roll from Michelle^.
*we're certain the POTUS cleared his schedule to call an emergency pick-up game to play with those presents as soon as the Heat left.
^President Obama also observed that James, in the aforementioned playoffs versus the Celtics, "had a scary look in his eye." The President has seen that look a lot lately, like when he mentions gun control to Republicans.
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