The thread title is very misleading.
It should read "would you trade Rajon Rondo, Jeff green, and two first round picks for a top-5 pick and McLemore".
In that instance, I absolutely would not.
It's really Rondo, Green, and two firsts for a 4th or 5th pick, a crappy player in Mclemore, and a ton of filler from a bad roster.
Mclemore has a PER of 7. Offensively and defensively he's got mid-300s rankings on point per possession which is another way of saying he sucks. Shooting under 37% has a way of screwing with your stats. Got plenty of potential no doubt since he still has a pulse.
What filler would we have to take back to dump Rondo and Green's 20+ million? Trade machine says Rudy Gay works and he's gold compared to most of the crap on their roster.
I hate this trade.
I concur with the sentiments expressed here.
Rondo is easily the #2 best player from his draft. You are only going to _hope_ that whomever you get at #5 this year turns out to be close to that valuable. Mclemore, similarly, is all hope and promise as to whether he'll be as productive a wing Green. You are trading the value of those two players for the potential to hopefully develop two similar value players. And you've traded from two positions where we don't have depth (PG, SF) for a position where we do have at least SOME depth (SG). So the trade already looks bad.
And then you throw in the two future picks?
Mark my vote down as a "no thanks".
The point of a trade like this is rebuilding through the draft. Everyone knows that you'd be lucky to have one of these guys turn out as good as Rondo let alone better than Rondo.
The idea is to rebuild around 2 fantastic picks from one of the best drafts in a long time while we have Sully and KO. The extra picks aren't MUST HAVES, we don't have to give up 2 first round picks but we have to give up more than just Rondo.
We don't want Green anymore so we'd be hopefully moving his deal too. Who cares what 'filler' players we have for 2 seasons of a 5 or 6 year rebuild? The point is we get 2 guys like Andrew Wiggins and Joel Embiid and develop them into the best that they can be and hopefully that best is better than Rondo or even perhaps a franchise level star.
Rondo is coming off injury and is a free agent in one season. Jeff Green has turned into the most boring kind of disappointment we could ask for and a top 5 pick in this draft is a very good deal for those two.
McLemore is here nor there, but he's young and athletic and has been in the league for 1 season- he's certainly not 'bust' worthy especially after playing for the Kings train wreck.
If Danny decided that the best move was to rebuild through the draft then I don't really know what more you'd get for Rondo or how else you'd get a top 5 pick and move Jeff Green's contract....
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