See my love letter to Rondo at the Boston Metro. Here's the opening:
Quick quiz: What do the following names all have in common? Joe Forte, J.R. Bremer, Shammond Williams, Mike James, Delonte West. If you guessed "shooting guards the Celtics tried to turn into point guards," you were correct. Thinking back over the last decade or so, the best pure point guards I can recall on the Celtics include an aging Kenny Anderson and an already over-the-hill Gary Payton. As Tony Kornheiser would say, that’s it, that’s the list.