Over the last two weeks, the Celtics signed three players to extensions: Marcus Smart, Robert Williams, and Josh Richardson.
On a recent episode of the Ringer NBA Show, Kevin O’Connor and Chris Vernon discussed the Celtics’s recent deals. At one point, Vernon noted that it would be useful to have historical perspective on new contracts to show why big numbers that might sound daunting really aren’t in the modern era.
So here we are. We won’t do the entire NBA of course, but we can offer historical perspective for the Celtics’s three new deals from 10 and 20 years ago.