is great. Not way too long where all he’d be is emotional support in his last year, but he’s locked up for pretty much the rest of his"prime." No it’s not too much money because he’s be tired after too many minutes. If he plays then it’s not too much money, especially if he earns it.

not to long and not to much money. He is our leader he brings confidence and swagger to this team.

nice work dubs! perfect extension!

When he gets a little scoring help, you can figure he will be able to settle into 32 mins per of tough D, great passing, third option scoring. We also get impassioned leadership and on the court teaching for the next few years. He is in excellent shape and is smart enough to play his style of ball at this level for at least another three years, provided Nelly limits his minutes to a sane level. If he falls off in the fourth, it is likely we will be indebted to him enough to justify his salary.

Good move management.

for the rest of the season. Hopefully for all you lovers of the most overated player on our team I am only attending between 8-10 more home games this season.
“Stephen Jackson should go
This guy pisses me off atleast 10 times a game, poor shot selection trying to post up while being triple teamed in the post. He’s got that really ugly high dribble, he can’t rebound, shoots a horrible % from the field, and he throws away atleast 2-3 balls a game directly to a defender. As much as everyone always says he’s a great defender I’ve been extremely dissapointed this season with it, he looks slow and he’s always helping off his man who usually takes an open shot. He gets burned regularly on the permiter by faster players. He’s awful, and he’s the least efficient player on the team. If this JackASSS gets extended I’m going to boo him before every game I go to!”

This might be the worse news for our team since losing Baron, #@%(*!!!!!

…is a bad move.

…that Nelson seems of the mind that Jackson is a must-play option. Jackson either needs to illustrate a little more discipline, or Nelson a little more discipline in sitting him. Otherwise, this has burnout by 2010-2011 written all over it.

It’s baffling that Jackson would get an extension when we have Maggette here for the next 5 years.

For under 9 million per you get a team leader and veteran that teams really need. He can teach all of our younger guys, and is someone that I love to watch. Hopefully Nellie will stay around with him till he’s done.

Oy. I love Jack, but this is not a move we needed to make right now. The money could be worse, I guess, but it ain’t great, considering we’re buying his age 32-34 seasons. If his defense slips, he’ll stop being an asset.

It’s not a tragedy, just an unnecessary move. This was done solely for his benefit, not for the team’s.

we have solidified our line up for years to come. We got a good core with Andris, Ellis, Jackson,and Maggs we need one more piece and we got a legit contender for years to come.

more captain Jack~

hopefully he does not break down from playing 40 mins a night, I wish he took less though maybe 20-23 Mil?
Like Tim Duncan taking less so the spurs can have cap space.

Now I know we are f*ucked! This is not a good move. The timing is all off. No need to extend Jack until we can figure out:
1. Who we are getting back for Al?
2. When is Monta coming back and how is his health?
Jack had 2 years left with only 7mil per. A great value IF we needed to trade him or let him walk in 2010. Mullin knew that he had time to extend S.J. Make sure he was going to fit in the plans of building a championship team, or use him to get us there. I know we have some real fans out their that understand this moved hand-cuffed us to being an average team for a long time. Heaven forbid Nellie quits on us cause nobody else in the NBA could coach this team.

Mullin was making some solid moves to better our team. Drafted Wright, re-up Monta and AB. Even had a good extention for Baron( until Rowell vetoed it). Sign Maggs( did I mention before we just signed him to 50 mil) and Turaif. Yeah Jack is holding us down, but he has losted as many games as he has won for us this year. Now Rowell is going to un-do all of Chris’s hard work in less then a year. This shows you who really is running the team! Do we like the new direction?

Cause I’m not happy with being stuck with an average non-playoff team for the next 5 years. I guess so. Some of you posters think cause you have been posting for ever now, that newer members of the site input isn’t valid. I’ve been a fan since 92. I have been down with this team for years and care about them as much as the next fan. But this is a poor GM move for our team. We had the rest of this season to extend him. And if you can’t see it for what it is, then your head is far enough in your own ass for me to bother with you.

While I’m not a fan of this extension, some folks are overreacting a bit. This move does not doom us to mediocrity or crappiness for the next five years. I’m not saying we won’t be mediocre or crappy — we may well be — but this move won’t be the reason why.

The keys to the future of this team are Monta, Biedrins and Wright. Jack and Maggs and Buike and the rest are important, but they won’t tell the story of this team… the story will be told by those three young ‘uns (at this point, I regard Randolph as more of a lottery ticket than a building block). We will go as far as M, B & B can take us. Extending Jack doesn’t change that; it just gives us a good chance of having a fairly bad contract down the line.

The worst thing about this deal is that it removes the possibility of packaging Jack and Al’s expiring contracts for a star next year. But to be frank, I don’t think that was ever in the cards. As crazy as the Lebron ‘10 sweepstakes are getting, I just don’t see anyone offering up a franchise-changing talent to enter them. It’s not like anybody on the Nets or Knicks would get us closer to a ring, and teams like the Heat aren’t planning on just giving up on the Beasleys of the world because they want Lebron… Lebron plus guys like Beasley is the whole point of the exercise.

Extending Jack now was a silly, unnecessary move, but it doesn’t change much. Our future looks roughly the same as it did beforehand.

I am not one to pass judgment on extensions because I feel like teams always have their reasons for doing things like this. From the team’s standpoint, they clearly wanted continuity and to send a message that they would no longer have any kind of mass exodus like last year. I get that.

The only question, though, is the timing.

We talked all summer about how Jack wanted financial security to make up for the fact that he’s arguably the team’s best player but is paid like it’s fourth best. With his long-term monies taken care of, he won’t be thinking about that and will stay happy. That’s not a bad thing, especially when you consider what Jack said last week about how he’s trying to stay positive to keep this team focused and developing. The team is, after all, the youngest in the league.

If that’s what inspired this move, I’d be concerned about Rowell keeping Jack happy at this cost. I’m not sure that it’s Jack’s job to do that – isn’t it Nellie’s?

I will not necessarily defend Jack’s numbers – they look good on paper, but the cost of his points (as noted earlier) are all those shots. The cost of those assists are his turnovers. We cannot sit here and pretend that Stephen Jackson is an efficient player, nor should we .. but his production and help in winning games has been and should be irrefutable. Especially right now, with the Warriors playing without Maggette, Ellis, and Harrington.

The judgment of this move, though, should come after the Warriors decide what the hell they’re going to do with Al Harrington. If they don’t make a smart move there, I’d undersatnd frustration about this move. Right now? It’s just a “meh” move – it isn’t that big of a deal either way, because the Warriors didn’t have all that much 2010 money (they had some, but not really all that much) and they decided to give it to Jackson instead of looking for someone else to pick it up.

A few more points:
- Jack’s increasing his value because they’re winning games and he’s putting up good, albeit inflated and inefficient, numbers. In theory, it would be tougher to keep him in the future if he continued at this pace, which could have meant more money spent. This argument isn’t strong, though, just something to think about.
- Unless the team does something smart with Al, like bringing in a couple of legitimate contributors, this could end up being a mistake that forces the team to move Ellis or Maggette in the future. You have to package Belinelli and Harrington for a big that can play. Bottom line.

Although this is a wait-and-see, I’m going to give it a thumb up for now while I wait for the other shoe to drop. Once that happens, it’ll be a bit clearer if the team knows the direction they can go in.

Anyway, the article link is here: http://www.hoopsworld.com/Story.asp?story_id=10636 .. it isn’t necessarily anything new or fresh, but gives some of the info behind why I think Jack was kept around. Tomorrow, I’ll have a “what if?” article up tomorrow outlining what MY plan would be.

Remember when I said Zach Randolph would have been an interesting pick up? HAHA expect something like that as I percolate tonight :)