would you trade Rondo for a lottery pick?

[coco]

Trading an All-Star pg in his prime for a lottery pick is a very risky proposition.
I wouldn't do it....

[GreenFaith1819]

Nope.

[D.o.s.]

Forgive me if this has already been brought up, but what kind of lotto pick?

As in, are you trading him to a team that's bound to have a bad record (magic, 76ers, etc.) before the season starts, and hoping for a lotto pick, or are you trading him to some team that has no shot at the playoffs at the trade deadline, or are you trading him to a team on the 2014 draft night for a definite pick?

Some of these things I would not do. Some of them I'd think harder about.

[fitzhickey]

If it's a draft night deal and we nab a top 3-5 pick then I would consider it
I'm not trading an all star pg for the 15th pick in the draft

[SHAQATTACK]

We are going to be plenty sorry team with Rondo......

Trading Rondo would be beating a already dead horse .

We suck already.....

[Boris Badenov]

Forgive me if this has already been brought up, but what kind of lotto pick?

As in, are you trading him to a team that's bound to have a bad record (magic, 76ers, etc.) before the season starts, and hoping for a lotto pick, or are you trading him to some team that has no shot at the playoffs at the trade deadline, or are you trading him to a team on the 2014 draft night for a definite pick?

Some of these things I would not do. Some of them I'd think harder about.

It wasn't specified, but I discussed some of this earlier in the thread. My take is that the uncertainty of a beginning-of-year pick - almost regardless of how bad the team was expected to be - would really hurt its value, compared to a certain pick (e.g., the 4th).

[LilRip]

Forgive me if this has already been brought up, but what kind of lotto pick?

As in, are you trading him to a team that's bound to have a bad record (magic, 76ers, etc.) before the season starts, and hoping for a lotto pick, or are you trading him to some team that has no shot at the playoffs at the trade deadline, or are you trading him to a team on the 2014 draft night for a definite pick?

Some of these things I would not do. Some of them I'd think harder about.

i assumed you could dictate your own rules. I posted this earlier, but if a team who had a pick in the top3 or top5 was willing to deal Pick+multi-year contract of an average player (e.g. think someone like Bass or something) for Rondo, would you do it?

[D.o.s.]

Forgive me if this has already been brought up, but what kind of lotto pick?

As in, are you trading him to a team that's bound to have a bad record (magic, 76ers, etc.) before the season starts, and hoping for a lotto pick, or are you trading him to some team that has no shot at the playoffs at the trade deadline, or are you trading him to a team on the 2014 draft night for a definite pick?

Some of these things I would not do. Some of them I'd think harder about.

i assumed you could dictate your own rules. I posted this earlier, but if a team who had a pick in the top3 or top5 was willing to deal Pick+multi-year contract of an average player (e.g. think someone like Bass or something) for Rondo, would you do it?

In a perfect world, I would've had most of a season to watch Rondo take the lead on a Celtics team.

So, maybe? It really depends on how successfully he comes back from his ACL surgery to easily the worst team he's ever been on.

Forgive me if this has already been brought up, but what kind of lotto pick?

As in, are you trading him to a team that's bound to have a bad record (magic, 76ers, etc.) before the season starts, and hoping for a lotto pick, or are you trading him to some team that has no shot at the playoffs at the trade deadline, or are you trading him to a team on the 2014 draft night for a definite pick?

Some of these things I would not do. Some of them I'd think harder about.

It wasn't specified, but I discussed some of this earlier in the thread. My take is that the uncertainty of a beginning-of-year pick - almost regardless of how bad the team was expected to be - would really hurt its value, compared to a certain pick (e.g., the 4th).

I think the beginning of the year pick snags one high lottery pick (ours) and one low-lottery. Not sure that'd be worth it compared to a draft night swap for the 4th pick. Especially if it was a conditional trade, that is, if whatever player danny's really high on falls to #4 or something like that.

[EJPLAYA]

Let's reverse the question a bit. If you were a GM holding the #1 or #2 pick in the 2014 draft after the ping pong balls had all bounced, would you trade that for Rondo straight across? I would say the answer is not a chance for almost every GM out there considering the top 2 prospects in the draft. (who knows who that will be for sure once they have played a season of college ball) If you agree that the answer is no chance at all that they do that, then your answer would have to be that you would trade Rondo for either of those two in a heartbeat. Yes there is a chance they don't pan out, but I take Wiggins or Parker straight across for Rondo without thinking.

[bfrombleacher]

Let's reverse the question a bit. If you were a GM holding the #1 or #2 pick in the 2014 draft after the ping pong balls had all bounced, would you trade that for Rondo straight across?

Except the OP did not say what pick. Just a potential lottery pick. It may not end up being a lottery pick even.

The idea is that we do "addition by subtraction" and dump Rondo with the hopes that the team will suck harder such that the Boston '14 pick might be higher.

But I reckon they'd have to dump Jeff Green as well to really get the tank.

[D.o.s.]

Let's reverse the question a bit. If you were a GM holding the #1 or #2 pick in the 2014 draft after the ping pong balls had all bounced, would you trade that for Rondo straight across? I would say the answer is not a chance for almost every GM out there considering the top 2 prospects in the draft. (who knows who that will be for sure once they have played a season of college ball) If you agree that the answer is no chance at all that they do that, then your answer would have to be that you would trade Rondo for either of those two in a heartbeat. Yes there is a chance they don't pan out, but I take Wiggins or Parker straight across for Rondo without thinking.

While that 'if this-then that' works great in geometry and computer programming, I'm not sure its the best way to tackle this problem.

Namely because if I'm on a team that has my own pick in the top 1 or 2, then my team is probably terrible--and a terrible team has no place for a soon-to-be-30 Rondo.

Now, if you're looking at a situation like 2008, where a 9th seeded team ends up with a draft pick far beyond what's expected, I could see the merit--there's a handful of teams that are in win-now mode who could use a guy like Rondo.

Let's say the Mavericks miss the playoffs and somehow luck into a top 3 pick. We're all well aware that Cubes doesn't think very highly of the new model of NBA team building--you don't think he'd throw together a package around that pick for a point guard who plays an awful lot like a prime version of the one he won a championship with?

Same song second verse with the Knicks--Rondo's contract works well for them, because they're keeping the max money open for 'Melo while trying to rebuild for winning-now. Bargs+the top 2 pick for Rondo? They've got the incentive to do that.

[jay]

I could see trading with the Magic or Bobcats.

MKG, Sessions, Lottery pick for

Rondo, Nets pick.


or

Harkless, Nelson, Lottery Pick

for Rondo, Nets pick



It would give the Magic the chance to build around a Rondo/Oladipo backcourt.  The Bobcats could use a good point guard to go with bigs like Al Jefferson, Zeller, and Biyombo.  Celtics would be getting a young small forward plus a chance at a franchise player.  That pick, along with our own, would make two top 10 picks in a really good draft.