Mr. Perfect wrote:That is unless Danny Ainge is in tank mode. He's tried trading Rondo countless times before, I don't see why anything would change now that the big three are gone. Lowry can easily be flipped to a 3rd team but I don't think we'll shake up the PG position mid-season, I can see a Rondo trade going down next summer though.
I'm not saying that they won't trade him. I'm saying that they won't trade him for a pile of spare parts, because Rondo is really very good. Ross has little value. Lowry in a walk year has little value. Fields has negative value. The 2014 pick would be in the 20s if we had Rondo, and the 2016 Knicks pick is likely to be in the same area (remember, it's subject to a pick swap, as well)...plus, it's three years from fruition.
That's a whole lot of not very much at all.
Rudy: 12-15mill (after opt out re sign)
Rondo: 11mill
Demar: 9.5
C.Lee: 5.5mill (ish)
Novak: 3.4mil
Val: 3.6
Hans: 3.3
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around 48 mill which gives us near max (around 14 mill I think if the projected cap is 62) to look for a replacement for amir at the 4.
Rondo's not going to take
less money in his next contract; he'll get closer to $15m himself. On top of that, you'd have another $5m or thereabouts in cap holds, leaving us with somewhere between $3-8m in cap space, in all likelihood.
But it's all largely pointless, because there's little chance that Rondo hits the market and the Celts get nothing that tops the above offer.
