Sam Amick does cover his butt in this non-story with this:
Yet what they can't do is offer the sort of draft-pick haul that Ainge covets and that could come his way from somewhere other than New York before the deadline passes. The Knicks don't have a first-round draft pick available to be traded until 2018, and that factor alone will likely be enough to keep their Rondo dreams from coming true. Remember this, too: If Ainge is going to do something with Rondo, his colleagues tend to think he'd wait until the very last minute before the deadline to do so.
Ohhh Sam Amick you're just a real Boodward and Werstein. Just keep breaking that, "Something might happen, but it probably won't happen, but it might, although its unlikely, but it could, and THAT'S NEWS I SHOULD GET PAID TO WRITE" insight we love.