ESPN: Celtics and Mavs discussing Rondo trade

[esel1000]

Man when this is what teams are willing to offer for your best player... you know your team is in the dumps... to think a few months back we were excited over Love and now this... being a fan of this team right now is really depressing

[Eja117]

Boston has reached the point of no return on a Rondo deal and Danny Ainge is moving fast toward sifting offers and making his best deal.

Wojo

Wowwwwwwwwww

Hoo boy.  It might really be happening, and I haven't seen a single asset named that I'm at all excited about. 

KG + Pierce made a lot of sense despite no one great asset in the mix, but this is a guy who could contribute through 2020 at least.  Just doesn't make sense.

this.  Hey does anyone know if this is all according to unnamed "sources"?

[Beat LA]

I sure as hell hope that there is a third party involved if this DAL rumor is true.

I would guess this is why the deal has yet to be completed. I'm trying to think of what contending team could use a player like Brandan Wright coming off their bench.

PHX for IT?

I'd hope we could pry Bledsoe if it was PHX. A Smart Bledsoe backcourt would be great if an extended rebuild is the path we're seamlessly heading toward

Okay, any time that I see 'IT,' I think that we're talking about computers, lol.   That aside, even though I do like Bledsoe a lot, his knees won't hold up for the duration of the contract that he signed in this past offseason.  I believe that in at least one of his knees, there's practically no cartilage left, so we'd practically be dealing with a bone-on-bone situation, already at 23-24.  Yikes.  So, yeah, no thanks, and the same as far as IT is concerned.

[Nerf DPOY]

This is gonna break the internet.

[TheFlex]

Boston has reached the point of no return on a Rondo deal and Danny Ainge is moving fast toward sifting offers and making his best deal.

Wojo

Wowwwwwwwwww

Skeptical. Woj doesn't like DA. Could he be trying to pressure him?

That recent exposé piece aside, Woj is almost always right on the money with trade talk.

Regardless of who sourced his previously released info, these recent tweets are clearly not from sources within Boston's org. Perhaps they are thoroughly vetted sources, but sources from other teams nonetheless, and those teams want to see Ainge publicly pressured to make a decision.

[kozlodoev]

methinks someone else is going to have to take Green & Felton in a larger deal to make this work. 

Wright + Crowder = $6M while Rondo = $13M...

Can't add Green without adding Chandler (in a two-team deal, that is). However, toss in Felton or Harris into the deal as proposed, and the numbers work.

[jpotter33]

Boston has traded Rajon Rondo to NBC's Basketball Talk for Sean Highkin and rampant Twitter speculation, league source confirms.

This freaked me out when I read it, because I initially thought a deal had gone down lol

[esel1000]

methinks someone else is going to have to take Green & Felton in a larger deal to make this work. 

Wright + Crowder = $6M while Rondo = $13M...

Can't add Green without adding Chandler (in a two-team deal, that is). However, toss in Felton or Harris into the deal as proposed, and the numbers work.

Didn't think I could feel even more sick from this deal...

[Endless Paradise]

Boston has reached the point of no return on a Rondo deal and Danny Ainge is moving fast toward sifting offers and making his best deal.

Wojo

Wowwwwwwwwww

Skeptical. Woj doesn't like DA. Could he be trying to pressure him?

That recent exposé piece aside, Woj is almost always right on the money with trade talk.

Regardless of who sourced his previously released info, these recent tweets are clearly not from sources within Boston's org. Perhaps they are thoroughly vetted sources, but sources from other teams nonetheless, and those teams want to see Ainge publicly pressured to make a decision.

Fair enough, but I've seen enough from credible sources (including Steve Bulpett) to make me believe this is less pressuring and posturing and more a reflection of reality.

[fairweatherfan]

Boston has traded Rajon Rondo to NBC's Basketball Talk for Sean Highkin and rampant Twitter speculation, league source confirms.

This freaked me out when I read it, because I initially thought a deal had gone down lol

Three times in a row I've gotten halfway through and gotten a jolt before I read the rest of it!

[ssspence]

If the Cs are indeed going to trade directly with Dallas, I really hope they get (my binky) Greg Smith in the deal...

[BleedGreen1989]

Boston has traded Rajon Rondo to NBC's Basketball Talk for Sean Highkin and rampant Twitter speculation, league source confirms.

This freaked me out when I read it, because I initially thought a deal had gone down lol

Three times in a row I've gotten halfway through and gotten a jolt before I read the rest of it!

Eh, i would expect to read the real thing in a couple hours...

[kozlodoev]

methinks someone else is going to have to take Green & Felton in a larger deal to make this work. 

Wright + Crowder = $6M while Rondo = $13M...

Can't add Green without adding Chandler (in a two-team deal, that is). However, toss in Felton or Harris into the deal as proposed, and the numbers work.

Didn't think I could feel even more sick from this deal...

I'm not sure why you weren't from the get-go. It's painfully clear that the Mavs have very little to offer for Rondo, so if there is really that much talk with them, there must be something we don't know.

[Endless Paradise]

Boston has traded Rajon Rondo to NBC's Basketball Talk for Sean Highkin and rampant Twitter speculation, league source confirms.

This freaked me out when I read it, because I initially thought a deal had gone down lol

You'll like Highkin, he's pretty good at setting up tweet lobs.

[saltlover]

Boston has reached the point of no return on a Rondo deal and Danny Ainge is moving fast toward sifting offers and making his best deal.

Wojo

Wowwwwwwwwww

Skeptical. Woj doesn't like DA. Could he be trying to pressure him?

That recent exposé piece aside, Woj is almost always right on the money with trade talk.

It was a great exposé.  But is Woj as good with Celtics news as he is with other teams?  He's not normally my first go-to on the C's -- Mannix and Bulpett seem to have a better clue what's going on here.  He's hedged in several Rondo posts today -- saying that something is likely to get done soon isn't a great prediction.

He'll get a hat-tip from me tho if Wright, Crowder, and a 2015 1st come over.  That said, there's a limit as to what players can be involved, thanks to salary matching CBA rules, the Celtics desire to not take on much future salary, and the players the Mavs won't trade due to team importance.  If you hear it's the Mavs and C's talking, it's not too difficult to figure out 80% of the trade.