Team USA Notebook: Rondo Welcomes Shaq, D'Antoni Defends Walsh

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NEW YORK -- Rajon Rondo likes having a new big guy in town.



Then again, it's not as if Boston brass consulted him.



"I don't have any choice,'' Rondo said in an interview with FanHouse about the Celtics' recent signing of free agent Shaquille O'Neal, 38.



Rondo, though, had good things to say about this hardly green center joining Gang Green.



"I like it,'' the Boston point guard said after his Team USA practiced Tuesday at John Jay College in preparation for the World Championship later this month in Turkey. "He's another enforcer. So we're happy to have him. ... He rebounds, shoots a high percentage from the field and can finish at the rim.''



Asked whether O'Neal could cause chemistry problems due to the Celtics already having many leaders and whether O'Neal could be happy coming off the bench, Rondo sidestepped those questions.



Rondo stressed he didn't think it was proper to say the move was made to help counteract East rival Miami having assembled a superteam of Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Chris Bosh.

 

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