If the plan truly is just to pack it in for the season and wait until the off-season to make significant moves, we can pretty much just hit the snooze button on the rest of the season / playoffs and wake up for the draft. The team may still be competitive in the regular season, but no Rondo in the playoffs means they are toast.
How many playoffs series would they have won in the past few seasons without Rondo? Seriously?
I think the last one is probably the Miami series in the first round in 2010. Maybe the Knicks in 2011, too.