Posted By Lynn Worthy, Sun Staff

Rajon Rondo will sit out tonight’s season finale against the New Jersey Nets at the TD Banknorth Garden. James Posey will also sit this one out. Eddie House will return to action.

Neither player will sit due to health concerns, instead getting a night off from Celtics head coach Doc Rivers.

“I wanted to give him one day off, and I wanted it to be the last game,“ Rivers said of Rondo. “That gives him a little more rest because he’s going to have play with an amazing amount of energy. Posey, I just gave him a night off.”

House will play for the first time since Apr. 9 against Washington. He has been resting a groin injury.

The Nets plan to play their starters against Boston’s first group, according to head coach Lawrence Frank. The amount of minutes for Vince Carter, Richard Jefferson, and Devin Harris may be scaled down a bit.