Rajon Rondo [34 years old]
2019-2020
$2.5 Million
2020-2021
$2.6 Million [Player Option]
Chris Paul [35 years old]
2019-2020
$38.5 Million
2020-2021
$41.3 Million
2021-2022
$44.2 million
Yes, by all means, let's gut out team and trade Randle and Ntilikina and Knox and multiple #1 picks for an aged Point Guard.
We could have made a run at Rondo multiple times these past few years.
When the Milwaukee Bucks traded for Oscar Robertson, the Cincinnati Royals, with overtones of ingratitude and racism, basically dumped him for a meager return.
The Big O was heading to Milwaukee to join a young Kareem Abdul Jabbar. He was the final piece in a team wanting but for a rudder, a take charge guy.
Gutting our team to get Paul? Flushing assets down the toilet? Going all in, and eating up more than half of our cap space to get a difference maker on a woefully incomplete team. WHO EXACTLY WILL REMAIN FOR PAUL TO MENTOR?
I love Chris Paul.
But this what we did with Carmelo, trading all of our team for a difference maker player, who wanted ALL OF HIS MONEY OUT FRONT, leaving him with NOBODY TO FUCKING PLAY WITH.
I love Chris Paul.
But unless we are getting him for salary filler, and not surrendering #1 picks, this is a suck ass move.