Looking back I'm curious what people think now. I was just reading one of the old rumors, and it was either KO or Sully, the 6th pick, and 1 or 2 other first picks.
Let's say this actually happened. My guess is we would then most likely overpay for Rondo long term, probably even Jeff Green too, and my guess is we would then use other assets for a defensive minded center.
Now I would much rather have Love than Sully or KO. However we now know how Rondo is playing this year, and have seen Smart. I wouldn't be surprised if in the next year or 2 if Smart is the better player as Rondo turns 30. We also keep 1 or 2 picks one of which we might have been the one we used for James Young. Then we also got for Green and Rondo; Crowder, the future Memphis 1st pick, the future Dallas 1st pick, potential first pick from Minnesota(or 2 2nd rounders), future Clippers 2nd round pick (trading Rivers to them), 12.9 TE, 7.7 TE (Prince trade), and loads of cap space this summer. Not to mention maybe we don't end up with Thomas too.
Looking back I was really bummed out the Love trade didn't happen, but we might have been locked into pretty good team, but not good enough. Now for this season we might not have been as good, but I think we have the flexibilty to better than that going forward by not making the Love trade. I wonder how people now feel about it if they still would have preferred that Love deal?