What should Danny offer Rondo this off-season?

[Celtics18]

To me, four years at seventeen mil. per sounds fair, and I think that keeps him.

What do the rest of you think?

[LatterDayCelticsfan]

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

[Mikedmx6]

I truly believe if danny builds a contender sooner rather than later he could get rondo at 14/15 a year but if it's just a slow process should either trade him to get something for him or let him walk because it's not worth strapping yourself down and furthering the rebuild process. I'm as big a rondo fan as they come but it isn't fair from both sides if this is a 4 year rebuild on top of this season

[zimbo]

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

[playdream]

with the poor performance this season 14m will be too much

[chambers]

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.

[TwinTower14]

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.

[saltlover]

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.

[Tr1boy]

Lowry agreed to 12 million a year deal (4 years at 48 million)

Should Rondo get more than Lowry? Should Rondo get paid more than Parker?

Or should Rondo get "stupid" overpaid like Deron Williams?

[Hawkeye199]

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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[Rhyso]

Well it is pretty certain the Lakers (and the Knicks) will offer him a max, so that is almost it will cost to keep him. Maybe with no trade clause he takes a discount with a 5 year deal around $80-85mil. But I don't know if he is worth more than $16m a year.

I am a big Rondo fan, although I am coming around to idea of moving him if we won't be contending by 2016. Doubt we get much more than a middle first rounder and expirings though, quality PG's are everywhere in the league currently.

[Rhyso]

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.

[deekhead]

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.

Well he did snag an occasional rebound or set an occasional pic.

He may even have hit a meaningful 4th quarter basket (or two) in his 8 years...

But mostly he's been  AWOL/MIA when the game was actually decided.

Deek

[littleteapot]

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.

[Evantime34]

I think fair market value for him is 14 a year(if you look around the league at the salaries of other point guards). However, since other teams will probably bid against us I would go as high as 16 a year