Jonas Valanciunas gets $64 million extension

Raptors sign 7-foot Jonas Valanciunas to $64M extension

Jonas Valanciunas has been the big man in the middle of the Toronto Raptors' rise for the last three seasons.

Now he has the big contract to match.

The Raptors and Valanciunas announced his four-year contract extension Thursday. The deal is worth $64 million, a person with knowledge of the contract told The Associated Press. The person requested anonymity because the team is not publicly announcing the terms, which were first reported by Yahoo Sports.

My first reaction is that that's overpaying him, but then, I don't follow the Raptors that closely. Glancing at his numbers, I'd have to backtrack on that train of thought a little, though it's arguably still a little much. Capable bigs do tend to get slightly overpaid as a rule though, and it's not a terrible deal.

I agree. He is getting overpaid.

It seems though everyone now days are getting overpaid. Tristan Thompson is allegedly wanting MAX contract too from the Cavaliers. Insanity.

The thing with Jonas is he is talented and talented big men are hard to come by but he hasn't gotten any better on 2 years now.