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Kevin Durant<\/a> is signing a two-year, $90 million contract extension with the Rockets<\/a> after his midsummer trade<\/a> from the Suns<\/a>, his business partner and Boardroom CEO Rich Kleiman\u00a0told ESPN on Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Rockets made this blockbuster offseason move to compete for a championship this season. Durant, 38, has averaged 25 points per game over the past 16 seasons, and he is the only player in NBA<\/a> history to average that many points for four different franchises. He’s a two-time NBA champion, a former MVP and Finals MVP, a 15-time All Star and a four-time Olympic gold medalist — which is the most in men’s Olympic basketball history.\u00a0<\/p>\n Durant said earlier this month he planned to sign an extension in Houston.<\/p>\n “I can’t tell you when that will happen, but I do see it happening,” Durant said<\/a>. “Just seeing the quick progression of this franchise from where it was right after that James Harden<\/a>, Chris Paul<\/a> era. Seeing with Ime (Udoka) got here and how he turned it around so fast. I have some connections here around the organization, people I work with around the league already … felt organic and natural coming into the gym and being a Houston Rocket for the first time.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rockets X-factor Reed Sheppard empties his bag in electric preseason finale<\/p>\n \n Brad Botkin <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The Rockets are coming off their first 50-win season since 2018-19. They finished sixth in defensive rating (111.7) and second in rebound percentage (53.6%) last year, per CBS Sports Research.\u00a0<\/p>\n Houston was extremely active this offseason apart from the Durant acquisition. The Rockets also gave extensions to coach Ime Udoka, forward\u00a0Jabari Smith<\/a>\u00a0and center\u00a0Steven Adams<\/a>, and signed\u00a0Dorian Finney-Smith<\/a>\u00a0in free agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n “It feels amazing to be back here in Houston, with friends and relationships I’ve built since coming to Texas,” Durant said. “Always felt this was a place I could settle in and live actually. Never thought about it, but I always say Houston is a good place to move to, so for this opportunity to come around, it felt natural and right.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Kevin Durant is signing a two-year, $90 million contract extension with the Rockets after his midsummer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9615,6377,56,58,57,4854,9616,9618,4846,3080,9617],"class_list":{"0":"post-10961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-chris-paul","9":"tag-dorian-finney-smith","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-houston-rockets","14":"tag-jabari-smith","15":"tag-james-harden","16":"tag-kevin-durant","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-steven-adams"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Rockets](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/reed-sheppard-getty-3.png\")
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