Former NBA All-Star Rajon Rondo is spending time with the Milwaukee Bucks as a guest coach during training camp. Rondo, who retired from playing in April, has expressed interest in coaching and is learning from head coach Mike Budenholzer.
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"You see people go from not coaching to head-coaching jobs all the time," he said."A lot of people go straight to becoming assistant coaches. So there's just no path. I just want to seek as much information as possible." Rondo's potential for becoming a coach has been noticed almost since he began playing basketball. His high school coach once told ESPN that Rondo would one day become a coach, as did his college coach at Kentucky, as did Rivers, and as did Brad Stevens, who succeeded Rivers when Rivers left the Celtics in 2014 to become the head coach of the
Rivers previously told ESPN that perhaps the only issue Rondo would need to adjust to as a coach is having patience with players who couldn't see the game as he did. "Kids create patience, and then as you continue to live life, you develop patience as well, you know what I mean?" he said."It's about being able to understand how everyone can get coached differently," he said."You can't have the same approach when you're coaching versus one team versus next and then personnel.
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