Rondo wants to keep playing with Sully

[BballTim]

I'm equally as thankful that I follow a team where management doesn't make decisions based on emotional attachments.

  Make ridiculous claims that are easily shown to be incorrect through statistics about other players and if I don't point that out some other poster will. It's not about emotional attachment. Imagine if I frequently posted that AB's a great passer and top notch ball-handler who rarely misses when he's finishing at the rim and then accused the people who disagreed with me of being emotionally attached to Bradley. I'd be just like you.

[Celtics18]

Trade rondo and get exum or ennis. Rondo plays and his man can do whatever. What a poor defender he has been so far

I don't think we can get Exum for Rondo because he's a likely top 4 pick. However, I would trade Rondo to the Kings for McLemore and the rights to whoever they select for us (Smart or Ennis). McLemore and Ennis or Smart for Rondo seems like a great return.

Rondo for Smart and McLemore I'd do.

No thanks on Ennis. Ennis is an overrated, mediocre guard on a mediocre Syracuse team.

To think that so many mocks have him so high (almost all top 15, and many top 10) over someone like Kyle Anderson surprises me.

Trade rondo and get exum or ennis. Rondo plays and his man can do whatever. What a poor defender he has been so far

Pretty sure everyone of trihard's posts have been bashing Rondo. Second, here is the great argument again that is my favorite: "Lets trade our All-Star for the potential All-Star that could one day be there, but statistically speaking, no."

Sounds like the gambling addicts who spend $100 to win $150.

But as it relates to salary cap getting a rookie is like spending $1 to win $100. Rondo, under his current contact, will make nearly 10x as much as a late top 10 pick. And that's not at all factoring his next contract and the potential of him not re-signing here and losing him for nothing.

  I'm just thankful I follow a team where management doesn't avoid acquiring or keeping star players because they get paid a lot or try to unload them near the end of their contracts when they've given no indication they won't re-sign with the team.

I'm equally as thankful that I follow a team where management doesn't make decisions based on emotional attachments.

We could use that extra money on a free agent, it's not about saving pennies. Oh and who is the "star player" you are referring to? It's surely not Rondo is it? If so, then your definition of a star is really watered down.

Personally, I would call a top twenty-five player in the league a "star player," not a superstar, but definitely a star. Rondo is not playing like a star player this year during his recovery from major surgery, but he has been one over the course of the previous five seasons. 

I guess the question is whether or not he has a chance to return to the level of "star player" during his late twenties/early thirties.  I would say that he has a fairly good chance to do so starting next season. 

It remains to be seen.  There is of course also the chance that his knee injury has simply robbed him of too much athleticism and he'll never recover enough to be more than just a good starter. 

Running an NBA franchise is very much about playing the odds.  I happen to think the odds of Rondo returning to the level of a star player is greater than the odds of Ben McLemore, Tyler Ennis, or Marcus Smart ever reaching that level.