{"id":116423,"date":"2025-09-03T09:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/116423\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T09:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:50:13","slug":"rockets-need-to-be-careful-with-contract-extension-for-kevin-durant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/116423\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets need to be careful with contract extension for Kevin Durant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Rockets made quite the deal this offseason, making a trade with the Phoenix Suns that gave them future NBA Hall of Famer Kevin Durant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, this Durant is going to be 37 years old at the end of this month, and a drop off in his production is expected eventually within the next couple of years, though he did average 26.6 points with the Suns last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But according to Tim McMahon of ESPN, the Rockets don&#8217;t need to be going all in on &#8220;The Durantula.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why Does Houston Needs To Be Careful?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy all appearances and by what I\u2019ve heard, they\u2019re not going all-in on an extension for Kevin Durant,&#8221;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/KtG6snHrVa4?si=dfI8N1L83I9MYylV&amp;t=1687\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0MacMahon<\/a>\u00a0said on the\u00a0Hoop Collective\u00a0podcast. &#8220;Now, doesn\u2019t mean it won\u2019t happen, but there\u2019ve been rumblings of, &#8216;Hey, KD&#8217;s not gonna push for the full max.&#8217; I don\u2019t know that the Rockets are going to put anything on the table that\u2019s close to the max.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The main reason being that a lot of younger players on the Rockets are expecting big cashouts from the team, and with the team leaning on their long-term support rather than Durant&#8217;s veteran prowess for the long haul, there&#8217;s no need to cause any conflict with the future stars of the team.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Rockets made quite the deal this offseason, making a trade with the Phoenix Suns that gave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-116423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}