Williams Locked Up For 5 Years

The Sixers resigned Louis Williams to a 5-year deal yesterday that shook out to about $25 million in total. I love this deal. Williams wanted to return so I don't think negotiations were tough and from the looks of it, we might have gotten a bargain. Lou was drafted in the late second round and billed as a project, that it would be a couple years until we got a return on him. Last year, he emerged as a nice player for the Sixers and showed he still has a lot of potential. To lock him up now for 5 years at about $5 million per year is great. Hopefully he continues to develop and this contract will look like a steal. We did a great thing by locking him up while there were no real outside threats and before he really broke out. Some people might say it's expensive now but just think about the deal we gave Dalembert at a similar point in his career. This also ensures he will be around for a while and probably be a major player for years to come.

Next order of business is resigning Iguodala which will likely cost us much more. Seeing as how Luol Deng and Emeka Okafor resigned in the neighborhood of $12 million a year, we will probably have to offer Andre a contract in that range. I was hoping to get away with giving him $10 million per year but he's worth keeping at that small uptick.