It will be a beautiful sight to see Rondo in green for at least 5 more years. Photo by David Liam Kyle NBAE via Getty Images.

Well, maybe not forever but for at least 5 more years: Rondo and the Celtics have agreed in principle on 5 years and at least $55 million.

While Loscy normally does not break news, this is news working breaking.

On a scale of 1-10 of happiness, I am at about a 9o5893408403924832094832094832094823094824309. Who wouldn’t be this happy if their favorite player just said YES to 5 more years on your team?

Here are some good reads about it all:

• CelticsBlog
• Red’s Army
• Celtics Hub and CelticsHub part 2
• Green Street
• Yahoo News (Marc Spears)
• Globe (Mazz)
• Ball Don’t Lie
• FanHouse
• Herald (Bulpet)

So what does this mean in the grand scheme of things? It means that you have one of the best point guards that can help carry this team in the future. We shouldn’t fool ourselves, though: Rondo is not necessarily THE future of the Celtics. Rondo is a major part of it, but he is NOT our franchise player. And understand that I am not slighting Rondo in any way by saying this OR discounting any of his abilities. Rondo is bar and far my favorite player in the league and I fully understand his importance to this team. But, even I know that Rondo is the second most important piece to our future championship puzzle AFTER the current window has closed on the Big Three (Pierce 2.0, KG, Ray Ray).

Rockets GM Daryl Morey has explained countless times how you build a championship team with 3 players: you need a franchise player, you need a player that is just a tier below the franchise player such as a perennial all-star, and then you need a guy that is good enough to be an all-stay that might not be. After that, you just fill in the gaps with as many role players as possible: rebounder, lockdown defender on the wing, enforcer, etc. I do believe that this is the recipe for a championship team.

In this case, Rondo is not our franchise player… but Rondo will be the perennial all-star. Rondo will be the perfect compliment to the future franchise player yet to be named on the Celtics. Danny has just locked up for at least 5 more years a winner that will be the second most important player on the Celtics.

How many championship teams have been built around a point guard? And Magic Johnson doesn’t count. Is Detroit with Isiah Thomas days the only one?? And even then Joe Dumars was a big part of that successful run.

Anyway. I’m relieved, happy, and excited about the next 5 years and hope we can add 5 more after that one.

Glad you’re staying, Rondo.