Rondo is shooting 40% from three for the Mavs. Forget the past 9 years where he shot 25%... a handful of games is all we needed for proof... Rondo just took the leap into superstardom.
As I said in a couple other threads... if you're someone who believed Boston could have re-signed Rondo, I don't see why your position needs to change now. If Rondo loved Boston before the deal, he probably would love Boston after. We couldn't put a team around him this year so we sent him for a Dallas vacation. He can try to compete for a title, get his playoff Rondo legs back, and hit the free agent market without another wasted season toiling away on a bad team. We did him a favor.
For letting the Mavs rent our superduperstar, we got another pick, his absence theoretically helps us bottom out this season, we got a few more tradeable assets and a TPE that we can maybe utilize. We can spend the rest of the year developing our trade assets and should be in good position this summer to land another star player. Then we can sign Rondo as a free agent, right? What's the max we can offer him without bird rights? 17.8 mil a year? Should be enough. If he insists on getting SUPERMAX money using his Bird rights, we can probably work out a sign-and-trade with Dallas. We can give them their pick back or somethin. Whatever. Otherwise, he can sign a max free agent deal and everyone ends up happy.
What do you think? Should Rondo be our top free agent target this summer?
If no, why? Specifically, those of you who were convinced we could sign him this summer... what's changed?