2017 NBA Manifesto
Rajon Rondo
PG, 6’1, 186lbs, 31 years old, 11 years of experience
A typically up-and-down season from one so enigmatic and hard to gauge. Rondo had big playoff moments a few weeks after it looked as though he would never play for the team again, and when injury ended his season, it also ended Chicago’s. This speaks partly to the lack of guard and ball handling options than he, but also to how, despite it all, Rondo can still play. He is completely unguarded, of course, and remains a terrible finisher at the rim. But he stuck enough jump shots to matter, proved he can playing some exacting pressure defence when driven to (however rarely that is), and found shooters on kick-outs and big men on rolls to the rim in a way no other guard could. It was all very sporadic and volatile. But it was at least there.
Player Plan: Unguaranteed for $13,397,000 in 2017/18, with a pre-moratorium guarantee date. Now that Wade has opted in, cap space possibilities are negated anyway and Rondo may as well be kept, although ideally dealt as an asset. If Wade is bought out, however, the already ill-fitting Rondo ought to be waived and his small guaranteed portion stretched.
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PG, 6’1, 186lbs, 31 years old, 11 years of experience
A typically up-and-down season from one so enigmatic and hard to gauge. Rondo had big playoff moments a few weeks after it looked as though he would never play for the team again, and when injury ended his season, it also ended Chicago’s. This speaks partly to the lack of guard and ball handling options than he, but also to how, despite it all, Rondo can still play. He is completely unguarded, of course, and remains a terrible finisher at the rim. But he stuck enough jump shots to matter, proved he can playing some exacting pressure defence when driven to (however rarely that is), and found shooters on kick-outs and big men on rolls to the rim in a way no other guard could. It was all very sporadic and volatile. But it was at least there.
Player Plan: Unguaranteed for $13,397,000 in 2017/18, with a pre-moratorium guarantee date. Now that Wade has opted in, cap space possibilities are negated anyway and Rondo may as well be kept, although ideally dealt as an asset. If Wade is bought out, however, the already ill-fitting Rondo ought to be waived and his small guaranteed portion stretched.
