Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:33 am EDT
Boston's Rondo not signing extension
It appears that midnight will come on Halloween without Rajon Rondo(notes) signing a contract extension with the Boston Celtics, according to Yahoo! Sports' Marc J. Spears. This will make Rondo a restricted free agent next summer when everybody and their brother (LeBron James(notes), Dwyane Wade(notes), Chris Bosh(notes), etc.) is an unrestricted free agent.
Rondo's agent is apparently saying that there isn't much that will change his client's mind to actually sign the extension between now and Saturday night. "We're not going to do an extension right now," he said. "There is a difference between the perception of him in their eyes and our eyes."
Rondo supposedly wants to be in the top five in terms of payment to point guards which would put him in the company of Chris Paul(notes) ($13.6 million), Deron Williams(notes) ($13.5 million), Steve Nash(notes) ($13.1 million), Chauncey Billups(notes) ($12.1 million), and Baron Davis(notes) ($12.1 million). Obviously, Boston doesn't want to shell out that kind of cash right now.
Source: Yahoo! Sports
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Your play will equal your pay my friend.....
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i see him more as a 6.5-8 million per year player.
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i'd say let rondo walk if he gets greedy. with the powerful big 3, you can pretty much plug any serviceable point guard in the starting lineup without suffering a big dropoff.
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Anyways, Im hoping the C's let Ray go, I think House can knock the 3 down just as well as Allen at this stage, and that would be what $14 or $15 million to add some help to the inside. KG and whatever aged serviceable big they can find didn't work out too well last year. Hopefully KG can put some gas back in Sheeds tank, and hopefully Wallace wont launch as many 3s as the SG's on the team. And everyone stays healthy.... jeez, its gonna be a long year huh?
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ray ray is sacrificing his stats for the team. he's not washed up.
if he's the focal point, he could easily average 23 plus points per game with all around #'s.
he's the best shooter in the nba comparing house to him is a joke. just check their stats.
plus if ray leaves, then it means the big 3 era is over. paul pierce might leave as well. he's not willing to sign an extension if ray ray isn't around.
rondo is not a difference maker. you can pretty much bring in brevin knight or tyronn lue or whoever and there probably won't affect their record at all. heck, nate robinson will be an upgrade and the guy couldn't garner any interest this offseason (had to resign for less than 3 million). the departure of rondo just means that KG and perkins will need to clean the glass more and pierce, daniels, and the new point guard will dish out more assists. it's really no big loss.
rondo has a high shooting percentage cuz no one is defending him. he has no midrange or 3 point stroke. paying him more than 7.5 million annually will be a waste especially in the current economic climate.
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Yeah, yeah, its the preseason but well just wait and see, I guess they could keep Ray on for $4-5 M and offer Rondo $10 M if they want to keep him. But like everyone is saying you don't have to be a great PG to play with the Big 3.
I don't like the idea of sinking a $15M into a player who just goes cold for periods of time, I imagine paying for a 4 or 5 who can take high percentage shots and draw the attention from the perimeter with KG, and give a cheaper SG better looks. You could afford a dedicated shooter and a lock down defender for the Kobe for that price. Im not saying that Boston cant have a Big 3, just make it Pierce, KG, and a consistent player. If pierce cares at all about his legacy he will stay in Boston, if not he will bolt for the money, and then who cares anyway.
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the other thing is that if you are a shooter, you're gonna have off nights. even when ray was in his 20's, he had off nights. he's playing at a very high level, putting up career high shooting percentage, free throw, and 3 point percentage.
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This is the problem wit the salaries being public knowledge. Every player is able to look at a guy he smoked last year head to head and think; "Oh, i should be making as much as him." When in reality, some guys get over paid because their teams can afford it, while others take less for various reasons. I think the salaries should be kept to the teams and the unions so there still can't be any gross underpaying of guys, but so that a player also can't think outside of what they actually should get. It's rediculous for a player like Rondo to say, Well Baron Davis makes 12 million, i should make that when he could just as equally be saying; "Andre Miller schooled me every time we player and he's only making 6.7 million"
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1. indredible raw talen
2. blazing quickness
3. superb defense when he wants to
BUT he also has:
1. NO relialbe free throw
2. NO relaible freakin' basic jumper
3. ADDICTION to gamble for steals defense
4. PROPENSITY to NOT consistently fight over screens on defense
GOOD FOR YOU danny for not signing this immature, incomplete-gamed kid to top money extension. the big 3 are like lysol to rondo's game- they make a lot of stink go away. but then when it's the big TWO like last year the stink shines through.....
as in that 'great triple double series had vs. chicago' was actually a nightmare becuase he let rose get as much as he got and then killed the team by going into meek loser mode in the half court set and then became non-aggressive when he didn't want to shoot freebies after getting fouled.
any GM who wants to take on this garbage for 10M a year and up, come on down. now if old rondo shows up and shoots free throws (hasn't in pre-season) and easy jumpers (hasn't in pre-season) and plays disciplined D (hard to tell in pre-season) then he's worth it. but alas, it looks like rondo is too dumb or arrogant to do these simple things to actually become elite.
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In short, an incomplete Rondo game makes the Celtics team have to work that much harder to make up for playing essentially 4 on 5 in ANY crunch time half court set- or that would be at least the fourth quarter of ANY PLAYOFF GAME (!!??). Rondo just isn't there in the half court set. Watch his narrow a$$ during some games and you'll see what i mean, he's just not elite or complete. he remains untapped potential, which in year 4 or thereabouts is getting to be tired old song.
It's more than obvious that he's had better things to do than just settle down in a gym and get fed 500 jumpers a day (to get better at it!!) during EACH of the last THREE summers. What the @##@%% is that all about/?????/
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Im not really hating so much on Ray, really, I love Ray, but hes a 34 year old making over $17M. That I don't like. I could be some crazy fanatic Boston fan and defend every player with my life, but try to look at it from a business perspective.
Its not that Ray has off-nights, he has off series, off weeks now at this age, you need to have a player that you can lean on. I really don't think Ray is going to give you 40 points if you need him to. Thats where I think Pierce's value comes in, he's not the motivator (KG's value), so take that $17M and give $9M to Rondo and then you have $8M to pick up more help, or drop the whole $17M and keep the Big 3 mentality alive.
On a final note, I don't think Ray is going to earn that much in this big spending spree this summer, his value will be a little over inflated because of the abundance of cap space, but he shouldn't pull more than $12M/2yrs if you ask me, but then again, im not a GM so I might not have a fackin clue what Im talking about there.
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