NBA Rumors: Rodney Stuckey Must Sign Long-Term Deal Detroit Pistons Offered

Rodney Stuckey needs to find a new agent and adjust his ego.

The Detroit Pistons have offered their restricted free agent a five-year deal worth between $40 million-$45 million and the guard is balking at the proposal, according to ESPN’s Chad Ford.

Vince Ellis of the Detroit Free Press is reporting that Stuckey’s agent, Leon Rose, believes that his client deserves a contract that pays him at least $10 million a season.

The fact that they are unwilling to take this $9 million-per-year deal is a joke.

Stuckey does not even deserve to make that kind of money and should be grateful that his team is actually offering it.

In his four years in the league, Stuckey has averaged just 13.6 points, 4.5 assists and 3.3 rebounds while shooting just over 42 percent from the field and 26 percent from three.

Those aren’t numbers that get big contracts.

By comparison, Rajon Rondo barely made more than $10 million while averaging over 11 assists per game and led a perennial contender on another deep playoff run. He's also considered one of the top point men in the game, something Stuckey certainly is not.

Rose is probably trying to point out that his client is much more productive than Ben Gordon, who is on the books for $11.6 million this year, and Charlie Villanueva, who is going to make $7.5 million.

Just because Detroit has fallen in love with bad contracts in recent years does not mean that they need to continue that practice and wildly overpay an unproven point guard in the post-lockout era.

No other team in the league is going to make an offer close to what the Pistons have put on the table, so they shouldn’t worry about him signing just the one-year, $3M qualifying tender.

Unless he drastically improves, and it doesn’t look like he will with such a terrible team in the Motor City, they might actually get him at a cheaper price next summer.

Stuckey has definitely overestimated what he is worth and it’s going to come back to haunt him when his contract is up and he's looking at taking less money.