Celtics And Rondo Expected To Talk Sunday Night

ESPN’s Mark Stein reports:

Although the past few days have been mostly quiet on the contract front for Boston Celtics guard Rajon Rondo, both sides are expected to connect Sunday for one last attempt to come together on a new deal before Monday’s deadline for contract extensions for members of the 2006 draft class, according to sources close to the process.

But further discussion between the parties, one source said, were not expected until after the Celtics’ home game Sunday night against New Orleans.

Before the Celtics hosted the Hornets on Sunday evening, Rondo said that he isn’t thinking about the deadline and hasn’t even spoken to his agent Bill Duffy recently.

"I ain’t called him at all," Rondo told reporters. "He calls me. I don’t call him. If he has anything, he’ll call me. I’m focused on the season. It’s not like I’m worried about the contract. I had a tough first week. I can’t really be selfish and focus on myself when I’ve got Mo Williams, Raymond Felton, Chris Paul and Derrick Rose. It wouldn’t be fair to my team if I was thinking about that right now."

Obviously, we'll know more by tomorrow, but in the meantime, this tweet (after a particularly pretty pass from Rondo in New Orleans) was pretty funny: