Rajon Rondo says he chose No. 9 because he couldn’t afford to pay a teammate for his jersey number, then found out rappers mentioned him in 56 songs
“The reason I got nine in Boston was because the single digit numbers were gone. Ryan Gomes was like, ‘Give me some bread for it.’ I’m like, ‘I ain’t got no bread. I can’t pay for no fucking number. Let me get nine’”
“About 10 years ago, one of my boys out in Seattle made all the track clips with ‘number nine’ in them, and it was maybe like 56 songs that had my name in them”
“When I went to clubs in different cities, I’m in the hood club and they show me love”