Dallas and Boston have agreed about trade Rajon Rondo, who joins Dirk Nowitzki and the Mavericks a few months before the end of his contract.
Houston, the Lakers, New York … A number of teams have tried their luck, but Dallas has won the bet. The Mavericks have indeed won the trade Rajon Rondo in exchange for contracts Jameer Nelson, Jae Crowder, Brandan Wright, a trade exception 12,9M $ (Faverani and off). The Celtics also recover two future choices to Draft, first and second round. If Crowder young promising and inexpensive (less than one million in 2014-15), is a bet on the future, the excellent and productive Wright ($ 5M) has the advantage of being free the next summer. In addition, it turns to 8.8 points and 4.1 rebounds from the beginning of the season, in 18.7 minutes. Minutes that probably will miss the side of Dallas, off the bench. Nelson ($ 2.75m) meanwhile has a player option for 2015-16, ($ 3.25m). But this trade serves primarily in Boston, which is under reconstruction since the departure of Ray Allen, Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett, not to see Rondo spinning without compensation next summer at the end of his contract. Especially as the rookie Marcus Smart is the future point guard game.
Dallas, best offense in the league
For the Mavericks, who were not, however, without the leads (Nelson, Devin Harris and Raymond Felton), this transaction is to strengthen their title chances. Nothing more, nothing less. Ably coached by Rick Carlisle and led by a named superstar Dirk Nowitzki with Monta Ellis, Tyson Chandler and Chandler Parsons as a luxury lieutenants, they produce a quality basketball since the beginning of the season. With 19 wins in 27 matches (6th in the West) and the League’s most prolific attack to attest (110.1 pts / game). It remains to resolve the issue of defense (102.7 pts / game) to actually claim a second coronation after that of 2006 for Mark Cuban team …
In this sector, Rondo undoubtedly bring a more. This is a fighter, a warrior, a player who turns to 1.9 interception career game (1.7 this season) and 7.5 rebounds average in 2014-15 (4.7 career). Member of the Boston team champion in 2006, the native of Louisville (Kentucky) knows the way he must travel to seize the Larry O’Brien Trophy. His experience will therefore also be a major asset for Dallas, which lost big at station 1 during the offseason, leaving spinning Jose Calderon in New York (in the trade for Tyson Chandler). Lack largely filled today …
A master in the art of making others shine
course, you can blame Rajon Rondo, 28, its relative weakness to shoot in general (40.5% success since the beginning of the season) and three points in particular (25.2% career) or the free throws (33.3% this season 61.4 career). But the person is mostly a conductor, an organizer, a past master in the art of player shine others. With offensive talent like Nowitzki, Ellis and Parsons, he will be able to give to their heart and will not need to force the shoot. Recall that Rondo, who has played 90 matches since the start of the 2012-13 season due to various injuries, running at 8.5 “assists” career and 10.8 since the start of the season! If his behavior has never been cited in Boston, we bet he will melt into the mold with the Mavericks, in a well-oiled collective, with leaders who will not let anything go.
If the graft takes, Dallas will look great in the spring. Proud same pace. Besides, the Mavs had already pushed the Spurs to a seventh game in the first round of the playoffs there are a few months ago. The most difficult series of the entire post-season for San Antonio, which had held thereafter. The question is whether Rajon Rondo extend the adventure at the American Airlines Center beyond the current season. If so, Mark Cuban will have solved part of the problem of post-Nowitzki. Otherwise, it will just have offered the German international best chance of winning a second title this season, before returning to hunt for stars in the summer. But one can not imagine he would have made that bet with no assurance can extend the All-Star point guard in a few months …
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