Wednesday evening, 9 p.m exactly, marked the deadline for members of the 2008 draft class to receive a contract extension. Notable players such as Kevin Love, Russell Westbrook, and Danilo Gallinari, all received extensions while players such as Roy Hibbert, Brook Lopez, Robin Lopez, Eric Gordon, and Ryan Anderson did not. Most of the players mentioned who did not receive an extension either did not want one from their current team, Roy Hibbert and Robin Lopez, or their current team did not wish to offer them one. The one player who I left off the list is Nicolas Batum due to the fact that the reason for his non-extension is sort of tricky.
As always when something like this happens there is always two sides to the story, but in this case there is three. First off it has been reported that Batum is eager to stay with the Trail Blazers and would like to remain with his current team. There really hasn’t been much talk from Batum about the matter other than what I already covered...
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