Sign and Trade for  Greg Monroe. Hadn the team to Marcus Smart (cue the flood of tps from Rondo haters)

Rondo only stays here for a 5 year near max contract. Esp if it is just the roster currently.

I think that a 5 year, $75 million deal is what we should expect to see.
He just won't have the market for anything near his max- he just hasn't proven that he has recovered the player he was before the knee injury. Luckily he's got about 85-90% of it back, but even at 100% he had plenty of questions hanging over him without the big 3.

I wouldn't really want to pay anything more than 5 years $85 million but considering the cap will rise, something along  the $18 million mark may just get thrown out there. If we did give him that much we better have a very significant, very important free agent being signed at the same time or being acquired via trade within one season of it happening.

I will say that I'm excited to see how this goes down over summer.
Hopefully we get really lucky in the draft. Just imagine if we could bink a top 3 pick- it would open up our avenues for acquiring a serious stud monumentally.

Rondo will get offered a max deal, which will be roughly 4 years, $82 mil (depending on the very uncertain salary cap) by multiple teams.  If Danny wants to keep Rondo he should offer that.  If he doesn't want to, he should trade him today.  As Ainge knows that Rondo will get offered this and hasn't yet traded him, my expectation is that he plans to match, and offer a 5th year player option to trump other offers.

Would I offer that?  He's my favorite Celtic, so I may be biased, but yes.  But if I wouldn't offer it, again, I'd trade him ASAP.

My first question would be, why would you want to keep him? Honestly? He is not a guy to build around!   I wouldn't offer him anything. Whatever teams pays him he will be over paid. Can't pay a guy 14-17 million a year that is completely useless in the fourth quarter.

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Quote from: TwinTower14 on December 16, 2014, 07:30:44 AM

My first question would be, why would you want to keep him? Honestly? He is not a guy to build around!   I wouldn't offer him anything. Whatever teams pays him he will be over paid. Can't pay a guy 14-17 million a year that is completely useless in the fourth quarter.

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Was Rondo completely useless in 4th quaters when we were contending? Assuming his performance over 22 games this season is going to remain for his career as opposed to his performance in his 8 prior seasoning is not sound logic in my opinion.

My first question would be, why would you want to keep him? Honestly? He is not a guy to build around!   I wouldn't offer him anything. Whatever teams pays him he will be over paid. Can't pay a guy 14-17 million a year that is completely useless in the fourth quarter.

There are like 5 guys who are actually "guys to build around." Unless you have a plan to get them we have to take some risks on guys like Rondo who have huge talent and also huge flaws.