Monday, August 20th, 2012 at 10:01 am  |  141 responses

Brandon Jennings Would Like to Sign Extension with Bucks


by Eldon Khorshidi | @eldonadam

Entering his fourth NBA season and also the final year of his rookie contract, Milwaukee Bucks point guard Brandon Jennings knows the pressure to win is at a new, unforgiving level. After leading the Bucks to an improbable seven-game series against the Atlanta Hawks in his rookie season, Milwaukee has missed the Playoffs for two straight seasons, most recently posting a below-average 31-35 record during the lockout-shortened campaign. Jennings, like head coach Scott Skiles and general manager John Hammond, has not received a contract extension, and will be under the microscope this year. While aware of the situation, Jennings has high hopes for the Bucks, and wants to be a part of the organization for a long time—If it were up to him, he’d have a new deal signed and completed as soon as possible.

More details, via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

Bucks point guard Brandon Jennings is hoping to have a contract extension in his pocket by the time the regular season opens on Nov. 2 in Boston. “It would be something I’d love to get done with and over with so I don’t have to worry about it,” Jennings said of the contract extension. “But the main thing is just to come into training camp a better player, a better leader … just lead the team to the playoffs.” Bucks management and Jennings’ agent, Bill Duffy, have until Oct. 31 to reach a deal. Jennings knows there will be plenty of pressure to win this season, particularly with coach Scott Skiles and general manager John Hammond in the final year of contracts. And the Bucks are coming off a 31-35 finish during the lockout-shortened season, marking a second straight season missing the playoffs. “With the team we have and the potential we have, we have a chance to be a top six seed in the Eastern Conference. That’s something I’m going to go into training camp talking about with the guys. Instead of saying we hope we make the playoffs, we just need to start saying, ‘We’re going to do it and we need to do it now.’”

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  • http://slamonline.com Datkid

    cosign Jtaylor. Wall gotta make Carolina proud.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdPcGP8-niM nbk troll

    Click my name and tell me RR can do that against another REAL PG, and not aginst african american J.Lin(mario chalmers)

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndyfsS0bFK8 nbk

    Rondo put up 44 against Chalmers and the Heat dumbass. Chalmers is one of the better defensive PG’s in the league. And the Heat are not the f*cking Nets. Honestly, that was the DUMBEST counter point you could have possibly made. F*cking Jeremy Lin went off against New Jersey too, you wanna come around here saying he’s better than Rondo? Go to sleep.

  • http://slamonline.com Datkid

    I think lake sees an enormous amount of upside in Kyrie Irving. which is fine. one day i think he could be extraordinary, and have an impact equal to rondo’s(in terms of wins not in terms of all facets of the game). but i don’t think it happens next year

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndyfsS0bFK8 nbk

    I mean honestly, you included Jeremy Lin in your argument against Chalmers, while using a game against the Nets as your proof? Are you retarded? Did you watch basketball last season? Or are you really this bad at arguing?

    .Let me break it down
    .
    .Jeremy Lin put up 25 against the Nets off the bench. Which started Linsanity.
    .Linsanity ended when Lin played the Heat, he was completely locked up by Mario Chalmers.
    .You just used a game Irving had against the Nets, to prove that 32 points, is somehow superior to 44….in the playoffs…..against the same team that completely locked up the guy you just tried to bash….who so happened to go off against the very team you are trying to laud as having success against a good defense.
    .I mean, if you can possibly make a more ridiculous argument, i would LOVE to see it.

  • http://slamonline.com LakeShow

    Are you telling me Rajon Rondo can do that on the regular(or even ever again in his career?) That was a career high game for him. He never hits jumpers like that. NEVER.
    We don’t know what Irving can do. We haven’t seen him enough. He might be a playoff beast just like Rondo. He’s stuck on the Cav’s but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have basketball skills on par with RR.
    Dudes might knock down jumpers. J-Wall got his 8 assists on a bad team. (they had some better shooters, I know) You never know if Booby, Casspi, Pargo, Waiters knock down some jumpers and Side Show Bob converts at the rim he might be able to get over 8 assists a game. He’s a good play maker despite the low assist totals last season.
    Yeah, Datkid, I do see a crazy amount of upside. He just needs to be around the game a year or two longer and I think he will undoubtedly overtake Rondo is the PG convo.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdPcGP8-niM nbk troll

    nbk chill that is just a joke b/c pf all the hype j.lin gets when he is really not as good a chalmers.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndyfsS0bFK8 nbk

    Lakeshow, we are not talking about what they will be able to do someday. We are talking about who is better at this moment, for this season. And I am 100% confident Kyrie Irving could not put up one of the top 10 performances in playoff history against the Heat. 1,000% actually. — I just posted that to show how good Rondo is right now.

  • http://cnbc.com JTaylor21

    Lake, I’m just as high on Irving’s potential as you are but dude has a long ways to go to be on Rondo’s level. For all the talk about Rondo’s scoring deficiency, the man put up 17ppg on 47% shooting during the Celtic’s playoff run. Irving is already a superior scorer early in his career than Rondo but I doubt Irving matches Rondo’s playmaking and all-around dominance.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdPcGP8-niM nbk troll

    @ nbk watch my vid D.Will is the one holding kyrie man to man and getting handled.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdPcGP8-niM nbk troll

    @nbk watch your vid and the heats strategy is play off and let rondos jumper beat us. RR wack ass jumper was on for once. And guess what… the strategy worked THE HEAT WON!

  • http://www.reverbnation.com/tray24 T-Ray

    Blah blah, you are trying to compare the Nets defense in the regular season to the Heat in the Eastern conference finals. Plus, Rondo had a better all around game anyway. Your argument sucks, plain and simple.

  • http://www.slamonline.com nbk

    That was me, not t-ray

  • http://slamonline.com LakeShow

    We shall see gents.
    Like I said, not upset at anyone that thinks that RR will be the better player next season. That’s the safe choice.
    This Irving cat is just too good for me to doubt in any way.

  • http://www.ebaumsworld.com Germy Lin

    WOW!! 100 plus comments and no mention of race, religion, or politics. Bravo!

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdPcGP8-niM nbk troll

    @ Lake right i understand why everybody thinks RR is better and will have a better season. After all RR is on a playoff team doing his thing and Kyrie is on the cavs no tv exposure and he was injured a good part of the season. all im saying is if i had to pick just from looking @ the two and i would pick kyrie all day cause he will drop points, fu(k assist and boards. when you got a guy who can go for 20+ a night

  • http://www.slamonline.com nbk

    That’s like saying New Jersey would have been better of they Kept Stephon Marbury over Jason Kidd. You realize that right?

  • http://slamonline.com LakeShow

    ^Depending on the team, that could be true.
    Starbury would be better for the present day Chicago Bulls than Jason Kidd would be.
    Different teams, different PG’s needed.
    With the Nets though that is not true. So point taken.

  • http://www.kb24.com The Seed

    Jennings should take his talents to Phx, Portland, New York or even Jazz. Jennings playing with Ellis, not not a good mix.

  • http://www.slamonline.com AT

    Brandon won’t get any where wit da bucks

  • http://www.xvideos.com nbk troll

    It’s not like marbury and kids cause kids is better than rondo and kyrie is better than starbury.

  • http://www.slamonline.com nbk

    No Irving is not better than Marbury was, but good try on the revisionist history.

  • http://www.xvideos.com nbk troll

    Nbk I respect your opinion like a mutha, hence my name. But dude I’m telling u. I know he a rook but you are obviously oblivious to how good kyrie is. And I’m not talking potential. Right now he is top 5 pg.

  • ctk

    Rose,Parker,DWill,CP3,Westbrook,Rondo,n Nash …Irving top 5 ..ruff …smdh

  • http://www.facebook.com/joe.l.brewer3 BlackPhantom

    Kyrie is not better than Starbury in his prime…c’mon son.

  • http://www.yahoo.com The Fury

    ..you know what caught my attention on Lakeshow’s list?? Kyrie better than Tony Parker..ughhh!!! Still, everybody’s sleeping on dude even he has more rigns than those in the list combined. He’s been in the biggest games, outplays every point guard matched to him, already 10 yrs in the league and he’s still just 29. He’s just about to enter his peak I think. Lake c’mon man, I know you’re better than this….

  • http://www.yahoo.com The Fury

    …also The Dragic will be in the top pg (Top 10) discussion this year and Rondo is better than Irving. Irving will be great, but not so soon as y’all think.

  • http://www.slamonline.com nbk

    Marbury was putting up 24 and 9 before he got traded. Sorry Charlie, Kyrie ain’t that good yet.

  • http://www.slamonline.com nbk

    And for the record I fully think Irving will be better. Maybe even considerably so. Just isn’t yet.

  • Cameron

    The Bucks have a whole lot of offense, but needs a lot of work on D.

  • roscoe

    Monte and Brandon J. are not strong enough, big enough, or tough enough to win a championship as a starting point guards. They are cheap versions of AI although they are super fun to watch play. Off the bench is another story for a contender.

  • Rainman

    My thing with parker, that leaves him out of the top 5 discussion for the UPCOMING season is the fact that he will have a reduced role with a healthy manu ginobili coming in. Coming into last year, manu ginobili was considered easily the spurs best player (see:dropping 20 points a game on memphis with a BROKEN FOREARM. He was so good tony allen didn’t even think he was hurt, but x rays proved otherwise) manu wasn’t healthy all year, so pop rolled with tony. That’s the only reason tony had a great a season as he did. But when manu comes bak healthy(as he was in the olympics, and he played better than parker, i think. Can someone verify?) He’s gonna play just as big a role as parker will. If not bigger. Which will result in a lesser role for parker. You can say he has more rings than anyone on the list, u can say he has outplayed any pg he been matched up with. You can say he still is under 30. U wudnt be wrong. But parkers success entirely depends on how pop uses him imo. Which also depends on whether there is a healthy manu. Cuz like Pop said…”He’s Manu”

  • Round Ball

    Milwaukee will be in competition for the 8 only because a few teams took a step back for this season. Orlando are headed to the top of the lottery. Might be a good fight for the last two playoff spots with Chicago and Atlanta having to deal with competition from Washington, Cleveland and Milwaukee.

  • SeanMagicJuan

    Some of you dudes are sick with the Kyrie over Rondo comments. Rondo is the best PG in the league.

  • http://www.slamonline.com Redd

    Lol, Jennings wants to stay in a stadium that regularly cheers for the Bulls.

  • Drig

    @Sean…….CP3, Deron would like to have a word with you. Well, a conversation atleast…..

  • pposse

    why in the blue hell would the charlotte hornets retire cp3 jersey?/ what did he ever do for them? A couple first teams and one deep playoff run now gets players retired jerseys? LOL, bring home some hardware, this is not a charity event.

  • http://slamonline.com Allenp

    People have always felt Manu was better than Tony. I honestly thought it was a toss up. Tony had to run the show and then get his points. That’s not easy man. Manu had it easier in a lot of ways. Come in and just play your game. Tony had to change his game from straight scoring to setting up everybody and he did it well.

  • pposse

    fury, everyone here thinks that scoring pg’s are automatically inferior to traditional ‘pass first’ pg’s even tho it has been proven time and time again that nowadays a score first pg is just as effective if not more than a the so called ‘traditional’ pgs.

  • http://slamonline.com LakeShow

    Fury, I like Tony, but I see him as a one trick pony. He can convert at the rim well, but his jump shot is mediocre, he has no 3 point shot. He’s not as great at play making for as good as he is at splicing through the lanes.
    Sorry, but I think Kyrie on the Spurs next year would be better for them than TP.

  • SeanMagicJaun

    Rondo is not just a “pass first” PG. He is a trip-doub machine.

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