29,233,380 secs
— Rajon Rondo (@RajonRondo) January 14, 2014
Normally, Rajon Rondo’s tweet containing millions of seconds could be considered relatively cryptic.
In this day and age, however, google makes it pretty easy to figure out stuff like this in a matter of seconds. Convert those seconds that Rondo tweeted into days, and you get 338.349 days. That still doesn’t necessarily explain why such a time frame was posted by the much-missed point guard, but that’s where twitter gets mighty useful. Folks in the media jumped on top of the tweet immediately and dug out information about Rondo to analyze what it all means:
as best I can tell, Rondo had surgery on 11:07 a.m. on Feb. 13. http://t.co/gBQ10UVzrr
— Chris Forsberg (@ESPNForsberg) January 14, 2014
Rondo’s 29,233,380 seconds tweet = 338 days = time between Feb 13 surgery and this Friday.
— Blake Murphy (@BlakeMurphyODC) January 14, 2014
It’s hard to believe Rondo would tweet out such a precise time period without a very meaningful purpose, so all signs point to his return against the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday.
The Boston Celtics started out the season surprisingly well and even led their division for a spell, but now have a 13-26 record after losing nine consecutive games. The good news is that they are still only three games behind the Brooklyn Nets and New York Knicks for the eighth and final playoff spot in the putrid East, so the return of Rondo should suddenly make the Atlantic Division very interesting the rest of the way.
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James Park is the chief blogger of Sheridan Hoops. You can find him on twitter @SheridanBlog.