------ I'm not going to get into the #SpitGate aspect of this. It's impossible to know whether Rajon Rondo was just trying to be slick with his saliva or if he just truly picked the worst possible time for droll to unintentionally shoot from his mouth in the direction of one of his many nemeses. I don't have to think Chris Paul is a great person to think he has every right to mush the hell out of a fellow shit-stirrer after wiping another man's bodily fluids from his face. Therefore, more than half of that quote is moot, as neither pain in the ass point guard involved in that alteration can/should be taken at their word. What is worth discussing, however, is Rajon Rondo acting as though he uncovered some huge secret by announcing to the world that CP3 is a bit of a prick. Like, are we sure he wasn't talking about Cliff Paul when he said that everyone wants to believe he's a good guy? I don't know what fans he's been interacting with, but apparently it's none of the people that scoffed at the idea of Chris Paul and James Harden co-existing as teammates without killing each other. I can't imagine that anyone is under the illusion that what we witnessed was some battle of Good Vs. Evil, never mind everyone. In fact, at least in my eyes, the beauty of the fight was that both participants were enigmatic assholes that didn't realize they were basically punching at their miserable souls' counterparts in one another. Rajon Rondo might be more aggressively unlikable, but - though his counter-puncher hides it slightly better - basketball fans are well aware of whose "demanding" personality slowly picked apart a talented Clippers' locker room that devolved into an outright disaster before it actually accomplished anything. Literally everyone that has watched CP3 scream and yell at his own teammates while flip, flop, and floundering his way to the free throw line knows he's capable of inciting something out of absolutely nothing. He just gets more leeway in doing so because he's a superstar caliber talent. Unfortunately, the person who got a three game suspension instead of a two game suspension because his saliva caused some skepticism prior to him throwing the first punch can't say the same.
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