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Why are the Lakers still playing Rajon Rondo? It’s complicated.

Rajon Rondo has not sent a tweet since before the Lakers began the season. If he was looking for a time to log back on to his Twitter account, he may want to wait a few days.

The Lakers lost their first game of the second round of the NBA playoffs to the Houston Rockets on Friday night, and you didn’t have to go far on social media to see someone pointing out why. As of this article, Twitter users had sent over 51,000 tweets about Rondo during the course of the evening, and his last name was the second-most trending topic in the United States, right behind the word “Lakers.