{"id":11088,"date":"2025-10-19T16:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T16:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/11088\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T16:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T16:35:14","slug":"kevin-durant-reportedly-agrees-to-2-year-90-million-extension-with-houston-rockets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/11088\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant reportedly agrees to 2-year, $90 million extension with Houston Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Durant was part of history in July when he was the crown jewel of an NBA-record seven-team deal<\/a> that delivered him from the Phoenix Suns to the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n

Now the 2013-14 NBA MVP has agreed to a two-year, $90 million<\/a> extension with the Rockets, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania, turning a potential one-year stay into an opportunity to ride off into the sunset. The deal also contains a player option for the 2027-28 NBA season.<\/p>\n

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Durant turns 37 in September. He has played 17 seasons in the league, made 15 All-Star teams and earned NBA Finals MVP on both Golden State squads he won championships with.<\/p>\n

Durant was on an expiring contract worth $54.7 million for the 2025-26 season. He was eligible to sign a two-year deal worth $122 million when he was traded. Had he waited until six months after that deal, he could have made an additional two million. Ultimately, that didn’t matter.<\/p>\n

At this point, that kind of contract minutiae is secondary to Durant. He hopes to win a championship with the Rockets, who broke through under head coach Ime Udoka last season. Houston won 50-plus games for the first time in six seasons and secured the No. 2 seed in a strong Western Conference. Although the Rockets bowed out to the Warriors in the first round of the playoffs, the present and future are bright in Houston.<\/p>\n

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Udoka was signed to a long-term extension<\/a> that makes him one of the highest-paid coaches in the NBA, as reported by Charania on June 19.<\/p>\n

The Rockets got older, essentially swapping a 23-year-old Jalen Green for Durant, but Father Time hasn’t stripped KD of his consistency. The versatile, 6-foot-11 forward has averaged at least 25 points, 50% shooting and a 40% 3-point clip in each of the past three seasons \u2014 that’s the longest such streak in NBA history, per ESPN Research, and Durant has strung it together from ages 34-36.<\/p>\n

While Houston also gave up a tenacious but sometimes reckless 3-and-D wing in Dillon Brooks, it signed another productive, two-way veteran wing player in Dorian Finney-Smith.<\/p>\n

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Plus, the Rockets beefed up the center position behind All-Star Alperen \u015eeng\u00fcn with the sign-and-trade addition of Clint Capela. It’s a Houston reunion for Capela, who spent the first six years of his NBA career with the Rockets.<\/p>\n

Houston’s newcomers will join not only \u015eeng\u00fcn, but rising guard Amen Thompson \u2014 an NBA All-Defensive First Teamer \u2014 and Jabari Smith Jr., among others.<\/p>\n

As for Durant, he’s getting ready to play for his fifth franchise. Before joining the Rockets, he suited up for the Seattle SuperSonics\/Oklahoma City Thunder (2007-16), Warriors (2016-19), Brooklyn Nets (2019-23) and Suns (2023-25).<\/p>\n

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Last season, Durant averaged 26.6 points, 6 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game in 62 outings. While the Suns had the highest payroll in league history, they finished just 36-46 and missed the playoffs for the first time since 2019-20.<\/p>\n

Durant could put Phoenix’s disappointments in the rearview mirror with a memorable final chapter in Houston. The Rockets helped set him up for that opportunity with Sunday’s extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant was part of history in July when he was the crown jewel of an NBA-record seven-team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6372,6386,6405,6375,6377,5590,56,58,57,4854,9641,6379,4846,3080,6394,9640],"class_list":{"0":"post-11088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-amen-thompson","9":"tag-brooklyn-nets","10":"tag-clint-capela","11":"tag-dillon-brooks","12":"tag-dorian-finney-smith","13":"tag-golden-state","14":"tag-houston","15":"tag-houston-headlines","16":"tag-houston-news","17":"tag-houston-rockets","18":"tag-jabari-smith-jr","19":"tag-jalen-green","20":"tag-kevin-durant","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-phoenix-suns","23":"tag-shams-charania"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11088","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=11088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}