As the Lakers finished practice Monday, Rajon Rondo worked by himself with a coach at a basket opposite a group of reporters.
He dribbled with his right and left hands. He shot with his right. All this only 11 days after he had surgery to repair a broken bone in his right hand. And the soft cast that had wrapped around his wrist was nowhere to be seen. After taking a few shots, Rondo called Lakers head athletic trainer Marco Nunez over for a chat.
“It looked like he ripped his thing off,” Brandon Ingram said.