Alright I thought I should chime into all this Rondo trade talk.
Personally I love rondo, but I honestly don't see a way that if we keep rondo and don't acquire a center who is Top 5 in the league by net offseason, how rondo either stays and we become contenders or rondo would even resign.
I say at the trade deadline we do a 3 team trade
Celtics give up
Rondo, Clippers 1st this year, bogans, And fillers
Celtics receive
Stauskas, Rudy gay and A 1st from SAC
Kings give up
Stauskas, Rudy Gay, McClemore 2 First round picks, expiring a wnd fillers.
Kings receive
Rondo and Josh smith
Pistons receive
Clippers 1st round pick, A 1st from SAC, and expirings
Pistons give up
Josh Smith
We then have a starting lineup of
Smart
Green
Gay
Sully
Zeller
Avery off the bench. For the remainder of te year.
Experiment this. If Rudy looks good maybe we resign him, or we do a sign and trade in the draft or we just straight up release him.
I don't see how this hurts the celtics and also let green expire.
Or else we can somehow incorporate Gay staying in SAC and green going to DET , but we would need the 1sts and cap relief instead.
Many different scenerios, same three teams should come up with a deal with eachother.
I believe those two teams are our best trade partners.