It happened. Go ahead and dance.
I'm happy for Rondo that he's in a good situation. As a Celtics fan, not so much.
But i mean... based on all those many public comments, he clearly wants to be a Celtic, mmiright? Let's take them at face value and pretend they weren't PR. Seems to me as long as boston gets a couple running-mates either via trade, draft or free agency, Rondo would strongly consider returning to Boston. I know he's dating the Mavs right now, but I don't see no extension on that finger. We got 9 years of history, baby. Come back to Aingie.
I say, go for it. Let's sign a couple of stars this summer and have enough cap space left to sign Rondo for close to the money that other teams offer him, even if it's a little less. I wouldn't be surprised if he came back under those circumstances. You should be able to come up with some realistic scenarios where Danny could do that based on the multitude of trade threads you've started over the years.
Not sure if I am disagreeing or agreeing but Ainge tried to get at least one star (Love) and probably some others but was not able to. The clock was running out on that plan so he decided to cut his losses and trade Rondo. I think Ainge clearly wanted to get the roster stocked along with Rondo and hoped that would be enough for them to get Rondo to resign.
So for the people that want to fire Ainge, is that because he failed to get Love or because he traded Rondo. For me, if he didn't trade Rondo and then he walked for nothing, that would be worse than either of the other two.