Vince Carter, Rajon Rondo rediscover young man's game on same night

Tom Gatto

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Vince Carter, Rajon Rondo rediscover young man's game on same night image

Wayback Wednesday in the NBA gave us:

Vince Carter's 24-point performance (in 29 minutes off the bench) for the Kings in their win over the Cavaliers. 

Rajon Rondo's 25-assist performance for the Pelicans in their win over the Nets. The dimes represented a career high and a Pels franchise record.

That's 71 years of former star playing like young studs again. Well, Rondo is NBA old at 31; Carter is NBA prehistoric at 40.

Carter, in fact, turned the clock all the way back on the Cavs and LeBron James: 

Rondo, meanwhile, bumped his season assist average to 8.3, his highest figure since he led the NBA with 11.7 assists per game two seasons ago for the . . . Kings. He's a veteran leader on a New Orleans squad that's in the West playoff race at 18-16.

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.