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Nine games into the 2011-12 season, on the heels of a less-than-inspiring loss to the Dallas Mavericks, Celtics coach Doc Rivers gave us one of the earliest hints that his team now belonged to Rajon Rondo.
"I think this is [Rondo's] team right now," said Rivers. "Until everybody gets it going."
Everybody else got it going; it was still Rondo's team.