colorfl1 wrote:NardDogNation wrote:colorfl1 wrote:y2zipper wrote:colorfl1 wrote:How far would you go?
Would you send Shumpert, Hardaway Jr and a 1st round pick for Rondo?
That trade is a steal for the Knicks.
You don't think the Celtic would trade Rondo for Shumpart and basically two 1st round picks <Hardaway & future pick>(and filler to make the salaries equate)? They just gave away Pierce and KG for ostensively 3 1st rounder.
Are you stopping to take into consideration that Rondo is 25 years old and in the prime of an elite career while Pierce and Garnett have any one or two seasons left in their career? It will take heaven and earth for the Celtics to consider moving him; much more than what you are purposing. Look at what the Clippers had to give up to get Chris Paul and that would be the ballpark package we'd need.
So if your the Celtics, a trade of Shumpert, Hardaway, Felton and future 1st round pick could not yield Rondo?
No! Why should it? The Hornets got Eric Gordon (high lottery pick), Al Farouq Aminu (high lottery pick), the 10th pick of the 2012 draft and Chris Kaman (former 20ppg 8rpg big man with an expiring contract). The Knicks don't have anything that remotely approaches the value that package had at the time of the trade. Shumpert projects to be a Tony Allen type player, Tim Hardaway projects to be something less and the future 1st you're proposing might not even exist considering how far in debt we are with them. The only way such a deal has any legs is if we manage to take back all or most of their bad contracts (Gerald Wallace, Courtney Lee, and Jeff Green), while gutting whatever value we have on the team for 1st round picks from other teams. The issue with the later necessity is that you'd be hard pressed to find lottery teams willing to take on win now players (Tyson Chandler and Iman) for their lottery picks, which makes the deal all the more improbable.