Once-overlooked Rondo ends up being an all-time Draft steal

Rondo is not just the steal of the 2006 Draft ... he is a steal for the ages. That he will play in the 2011 All-Star Game while most other '06 arrivals are struggling to play anywhere (or have already washed out of the league) is what makes Rondo and Danny Ainge look better by the day.It was Ainge, Boston's president of basketball operations, who targeted Rondo and found a trade partner in the late-teens or early-20s, the projected landing spot for the then-Kentucky sophomore Rondo. Ainge arranged a deal with the Suns: If Rondo was there at 21, Phoenix would take him and trade Rondo and Brian Grant's weighty salary to the Celtics for a 2007 first-round choice.

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