Boston, MA (SportsNetwork.com) – In what was essentially a procedural move to prepare Rajon Rondo for his expected season debut, the Boston Celtics assigned the All-Star point guard to the Maine Red Claws on Wednesday before recalling him from the team’s NBA Development League affiliate.<\/p>\n
The transaction enabled Rondo, working his way back from a torn ACL suffered nearly a year ago, to practice with the Red Claws in advance of the Celtics’ upcomimg game against the Los Angeles Lakers. Rondo had hinted via a Twitter message on Monday that he was on schedule to play in Friday’s contest.<\/p>\n
“Rajon is progressing terrifically in his rehab and this is the next step,” Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge said. “This is a brief assignment so that Rajon can participate in a workout this afternoon with the Red Claws and he will be called back up to the Celtics upon the conclusion of the workout.”<\/p>\n
Rondo tore his ACL on Jan. 25 of last year in a game at Atlanta and underwent surgery a few weeks later, missing Boston’s final 39 games of the 2012-13 regular season as well as the team’s loss to the New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
The Celtics have gone just 13-26 without the four-time All-Star in the lineup this season, the fourth-worst record in the East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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