Wasn't there a point where we could have traded him Ben McLemore and 2014 #8 pick, but Rondo made it known he would refuse to re-sign with the Kings? He also was asking for 100 mil from the Celtics.
Now he's taking 10 mil from the Kings?
Summer of hell.
We never could have acquired a 2014 pick, as the Kings have a protected one that's been owed through 2017 for years. They haven't given it up ever because it's either top 10 or 12 protected (I forget which.) That rumor would have meant a pick swap at best if we were to have gotten their 2014 1st.
It was a rumored draft day deal so the trade would have happened after the draft.
No it wasn't. It was rumored in like December of 2013. The rumor was supposedly IT, McLemore, a pick, and some sort of salary filler that was not expiring for Rondo. But the pick couldn't have been 2014, for reasons explained above. If the rumor popped up again on draft night, then IT couldn't have been involved, since he was a free agent. And I don't know what salaries Sac was going to be sending back, since they had no cap room and not much in expirings -- I guess McLemore, Williams, and pick 8 would have worked after the moratorium, but I sure as heck don't remember hearing it then, since at that point Ainge was making offers for Love to pair with Rondo.