Would you trade Rondo to clear cap space?

[Eja117]

It's a little like saying "Should the Bulls trade Loul Deng for cap space to make room to go after Howard?"

What? No

Or..."Should the Memphis Grizzlies trade Rudy Gay for cap space so they can make a great run at a free agent?"

No.

Are there any other young stars generally thought of as in the top 4-7 at their position signed to a very friendly long term deal that should be traded for nothing?  Maybe Kevin Love? Kevin Durant just signed a deal. He's probably making money. If they just traded him then they could go after a good free agent.

[bfrombleacher]

For a potentially good pick or to move up? Yes. Maybe.

For cap space...NO

[Roy H.]

Trading Rondo simply for cap space doesn't make a lot of sense.  We'd be better off keeping Rondo until the summer and then using him in a sign-and-trade to facilitate one of the big free agents coming here.  In the alternative, we could hold on to him and then deal him to another team with cap space during the summer, and then sign Deron.  It doesn't make a lot of sense to dump Rondo now, though.

you kiss the lottery goodbye then. One of strongest draft in a long time. Talent heavy in the lottery.

Is the difference between, say, the 15th pick and the 9th pick really worth dumping Rondo?  I say no.  Heck, even if we fell all the way to the worst record in the league (which is basically an impossibility) we'd still have something like a 38% chance of landing outside the top-3 picks.

Yes. One is in the lottery, the other is not. Bulls had %1.7 chance the Derrick Rose year.

Yes, and 98.3% of the time the Bulls would have ended up out of luck.

that's irrevlant now. All that matters Bulls have Derrick Rose. If Bulls weren't in the lottery that year, there would be no Derrick Rose from them.

I don't think it's a sound strategy to trade a young, two-time all-star point guard for a 1.7% chance at winning the lottery.  That seems like a pretty terrible decision to me, even if 17 times out of 1,000 you'll come out smelling like a rose.

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It's a little like saying "Should the Bulls trade Loul Deng for cap space to make room to go after Howard?"

What? No

Or..."Should the Memphis Grizzlies trade Rudy Gay for cap space so they can make a great run at a free agent?"

No.

Are there any other young stars generally thought of as in the top 4-7 at their position signed to a very friendly long term deal that should be traded for nothing?  Maybe Kevin Love? Kevin Durant just signed a deal. He's probably making money. If they just traded him then they could go after a good free agent.

Bulls are contenders. Celtics are pretenders.

Grizzlies have arguably second best front court (Zbo & Gasol) behind Gasol and Bynum  in the NBA. So i don't where you getting at.

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Trading Rondo simply for cap space doesn't make a lot of sense.  We'd be better off keeping Rondo until the summer and then using him in a sign-and-trade to facilitate one of the big free agents coming here.  In the alternative, we could hold on to him and then deal him to another team with cap space during the summer, and then sign Deron.  It doesn't make a lot of sense to dump Rondo now, though.

you kiss the lottery goodbye then. One of strongest draft in a long time. Talent heavy in the lottery.

Is the difference between, say, the 15th pick and the 9th pick really worth dumping Rondo?  I say no.  Heck, even if we fell all the way to the worst record in the league (which is basically an impossibility) we'd still have something like a 38% chance of landing outside the top-3 picks.

Yes. One is in the lottery, the other is not. Bulls had %1.7 chance the Derrick Rose year.

Yes, and 98.3% of the time the Bulls would have ended up out of luck.

that's irrevlant now. All that matters Bulls have Derrick Rose. If Bulls weren't in the lottery that year, there would be no Derrick Rose from them.

I don't think it's a sound strategy to trade a young, two-time all-star point guard for a 1.7% chance at winning the lottery.  That seems like a pretty terrible decision to me, even if 17 times out of 1,000 you'll come out smelling like a rose.

what about 2nd overall Andre Drummond, 3rd pick Michael Gilchrist, or 4th Harrison Barnes, etc... This lottery class is top heavy.

[CelticG1]

Trading Rondo simply for cap space doesn't make a lot of sense.  We'd be better off keeping Rondo until the summer and then using him in a sign-and-trade to facilitate one of the big free agents coming here.  In the alternative, we could hold on to him and then deal him to another team with cap space during the summer, and then sign Deron.  It doesn't make a lot of sense to dump Rondo now, though.

you kiss the lottery goodbye then. One of strongest draft in a long time. Talent heavy in the lottery.

So do you mean trade a bunch of our guys?

Really don't think we will hit the lottery with just Rondo gone, even if it was a complete salary dump.

at this pace, Celtics are a lottery team. Trading Rondo fast tracks it.

Just because we are on pace doesn't mean thats what's going to happen.

I could just as easily say that when Bradley is starting over Rondo we win a lot more games.

Reality is that it's somewhere in the middle. Most likely we wouldn't do as well without Rondo but most likely our team will play better than they have been lately. Unless you think Pierce and Allen are in an utter downward spiral and KG will continue to miss games for personal reasons and Bass will never get healthy

Celtics are 8th seed with Rondo. And a lottery team without Rondo.

I just think you are dead wrong so i'll leave it at that.

Just funny that you didn't start this thread when we won 9 of 10. Pretty standard around here though.