Welcome to the Ringer NBA show. I'm Chris Varnett joining me today from Yahoo's The Vertical

is a surly Chris Manix. Right as we are recording this, we have just found out that Ray John

Rondo is out indefinitely. Manix was up all night writing 1500 words about Ray John

Rondo that will they see the light of day Manix? Well, I mean, the injury doesn't require

surgery so maybe he'll be back at some point during this postseason, but man, that is a

vicious kick in the teeth. I've had that happen before, you know, when I was at the

foot of the road, I was just wondering what those trades you run the risk sometimes.

Guys getting hurt, I remember, you know, a white Howard once I had a piece on that never

ran because of injury. A few other players, but not when it's not what's literally minutes

from publishing when this this dude comes out. Let me do the positive spin. We can do

the Manix lost articles and you can have the one about white Howard and the one about

Ray John Rondo just keep them and then years down the road, you can release them. Yeah,

you just got to like repurpose them at some point down the line, which is fine. Like they'll

all get out of it. That's it's the price you pay sometimes in covering sports, stuff

like this happen. But the first time is like a strictly web writer, Chris, that, you know,

that that it's literally minutes away from publishing before this news comes out.

This is clearly monstrous news, Chris. Does it change? Do you think the Rondo injury now

changes the course of that series completely? Well, it changes it because he's been very

successful and you could tell watching and I was at the first two games in Boston that

he's a motivated player, you know, going up against this former team. I mean, he relishes

this opportunity and he's properly and better against Boston than he would against anybody

else. And certainly it's a step back having to play Jerry and Grant or Michael Carter

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