On this day in Boston Celtics history, champion floor general Rajon Rondo scored a triple-double in a 114-96 blowout win over the Indiana Pacers in 2008 in front of a home crowd at TD Garden.
The victory came in the Celtics’ 20th game since they had won the 2008 NBA Championship, with the memory of hanging the team’s first championship banner in decades still fresh in the minds of fans — and only two losses to their name to start the 2008-09 season to make it even more exciting. The Kentucky product put up an eye-popping stat line in the beatdown they gave to their Central Division opponent, too.
