I wrote this morning on the matter of a possible extension for Eric Gordon for Forbes. As I outlined in that piece, under the collective bargaining agreement, the most the Rockets could do is tack on three additional years to Gordon’s existing deal with raises limited by certain percentages; he would make about $20 million in the final year of the deal. Considering that Gordon would be 33 in the last year of such an extension, I’m fairly certain that’s the most the Rockets would want to do anyways.
But the intriguing wrinkle is the prohibition on a subsequent trade.