{"id":190619,"date":"2025-10-05T01:33:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T01:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190619\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T01:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T01:33:16","slug":"durant-plans-to-sign-extension-with-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190619\/","title":{"rendered":"Durant plans to sign extension with Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Superstar forward Kevin Durant said Monday that he eventually plans to sign an extension with the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>Durant is entering the final year of his contract following a blockbuster trade from the Phoenix Suns in the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do see myself signing a contract extension,&#8221; Durant told reporters, including <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KellyIko\/status\/1972709758068203703\" rel=\"nofollow\">Yahoo Sports&#8217; Kelly Iko<\/a>. &#8220;I can&#8217;t tell you exactly when it will happen, but I do see it happening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Durant shared his intention to remain with the Rockets on his 37th birthday. The former MVP will earn $54.7 million in the final year of the deal he signed with the Suns. He&#8217;s eligible for a two-year, $122-million maximum contract with Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Rockets general manager Rafael Stone declined to address extension discussions with Durant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have some connections here within the organization,&#8221; Durant said, &#8220;people I&#8217;ve worked with around the league already, so it just felt organic and natural coming into the gym and getting to be a Houston Rocket for the first time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Durant added that he was impressed by the Rockets&#8217; development under head coach Ime Udoka as they captured the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference last season.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time NBA champion is set to play for his fifth franchise in his 19th season in the league (including the 2019-20 campaign, which he missed due to injury). Durant averaged 26.6 points per game with 6.0 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 1.2 blocks, and 0.8 steals in 62 games last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Superstar forward Kevin Durant said Monday that he eventually plans to sign an extension with the Houston Rockets.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-190619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}