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BOSTON -- Rajon Rondo has been searching for a cure to an early season funk, and it might have been as simple as some orange juice and toast. By now you've seen the photos of Rondo and Kobe Bryant's breakfast on Thursday at The Paramount in Beacon Hill. The two players reaffirmed their mutual admiration for one another on Friday while detailing the confab. Rondo playfully downplayed the gathering by suggesting it was "just two a--holes having breakfast." Rondo explained how the two players talked about everything from their glory days of competing in the 2008 and 2010 NBA Finals, to these gory days of navigating an unforgiving rebuilding process. But you get the sense that Rondo stood up after the breakfast, bid his rival companion a fond farewell and thought to himself, "Man, I can't wait to kick his a-- on Friday night." An ultra-aggressive Rondo, maybe feeding a bit off seeing those gold Lakers jerseys on the opposite side, handed out 16 assists -- two more than the...