The short answer to all of this is yes. Providing the Rockets back up a cash truck to his front door and the current Houston roster returns healthy, Ron-Ron will probably resign. The Rockets would be crazy to let Ron Artest walk away at this point anyway, since he’s been the one constant force they’ve had all season. 

Both Ron Artest and the team say they want to extend their relationship for another season, but the fiery forward also said he’ll weigh other options as a free agent. “You take everything into consideration,” Artest said Tuesday, two days after the Rockets were eliminated from the playoffs by the Los Angeles Lakers. “It’s hard to get into that right now, on what I’m thinking, as far as somebody making an offer I can’t refuse. “It’s going on 48 hours (since the loss), so I really haven’t had time to think about it. I’m just trying to stay in the gym and just improving my game for next year.” 

Translation: “Yadda, yadda, yadda. Pay me more money and we can do it all over again next year”.

Via Houston Chronicle