According to a report on December 29, Rondo, a Celtics and Lakers celebrity, was interviewed about James. Rondo talked about James as a teammate, saying that before he joined the Lakers, he knew that as long as he was a teammate with James, he would win a championship, and James had reached the Finals for eight consecutive years at that time. Rondo also talked about James as an opponent, for example, in the sixth game of the 2012 Eastern Conference finals, James sacrificed the "pupil of death" that went down in history, blew up the Celtics, and finally saved the Heat, and won the championship that season.
Rondo said that the Celtics were very good at that time, and although James single-core led the Cavaliers to have a good atmosphere in the team, they could not win the championship yet. Rondo went on to say that James joining the Heat was a great decision, and he led the Heat to defeat the Celtics.
Rondo was impressed by the Pupil of Death, who rarely talked about being an opponent when he was teammates with James in the Lakers, with the exception of the Pupil of Death. James told Rondo that game, the Heat had to win against the Celtics. Rondo said on the show that James scored 45 points in that game and no one could guard him. You must know that the Celtics' defense was very strong back then, and there was a historical defensive gate like Garnett, and Pierce was big enough, but whether it was a single defense, a package, a co-defense or a joint defense, the Celtics could only accept the result of being blown up by James. So much so that Rondo is very confident that if James hadn't eliminated the Celtics that year, the Celtics would have won the championship.