Obviously other than Thabo we wont have any contracts to extend until the offseason, but it is always interesting to look around the league and see how some of these extensions are going and the dollars that are being given out considering in the next 12 months we will have to give KD and Jeff new deals and a year later it will be Russ' turn.  Today Rajon Rondo got 5 years and 55 million from the Celtics and while he is a nice player, i think that is just way too much money for him.  He benefits immensely from playing with Pierce, KG and Ray and we all know that within the next two years KG and Ray will probably be gone and they are going to be paying Rondo like a top 5 pg.  The other deal that is being talked about is Rudy Gay and Memphis where Gay wants 5/60 and Memphis doesnt want to go beyond 5/50.  Personally the 5/55 that Rondo got wouldnt be a bad deal for Memphis though if I was Gay he might be better off trying to go shorter and get 3/33 or 3/36.

We all know that Presti is going to give KD max money as he should so that is not up for question.  These deals do however in some ways bring up the value and money that should be paid to Jeff and Russ in the next two years.  I have always believed that Jeff should get something like what Millsap ended up with which was 4/32, 5/40, basically 8 mil a year.  Russ is more confusing for me to put a number on because I see the flashes of the great player he can become and then I see the flipside of how much growth is left to be done.  The comparables that comes to mind would be Mo Williams 6/51.5 and Devin Harris 5/42.6 which would put Russ at 8.5-9 mil a year.  Obviously people will disagree on both sides as to whether it is too much or too little, but have at it.