{"id":11354,"date":"2025-10-19T21:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T21:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/11354\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T21:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T21:04:08","slug":"kevin-durant-reportedly-signs-2-year-extension-with-houston-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/11354\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant reportedly signs 2-year extension with Houston Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Months after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/sports\/phoenix-suns-houston-rockets-trade-kevin-durant-jalen-green-dillon-brooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">blockbuster trade to Houston<\/a>, multiple reports say Kevin Durant has signed a multi-million dollar contract extension with the Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>   Reports: Rockets&#8217; Kevin Durant signs extension <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">According to reports, 11-time All-NBA honoree Kevin Durant has agreed to a two-year extension with his team.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The forward was just traded to Houston earlier this year. The Rockets and the Phoenix Suns agreed in July to swap Durant for Jalen Green and Dillon Brooks.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46647094\/kevin-durant-getting-90m-rockets-extension-30m-max\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ESPN cites<\/a> Durant&#8217;s business partner Rich Kleiman, who says the extension deal is worth $90 million with a player option for the 2027-28 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Durant was reportedly eligible for a maximum $120 million extension over two years, but his decision to come to Houston costed him $30 million. Reports say his decision will give the Rockets flexibility for future deals.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kevin-durant-houston-rockets-contract-extension-37eb17e85ef60f4078f7111444373a56\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">According to the Associated Press<\/a>, if Durant plays both seasons in the extension deal, the $90 million would add to a total of almost $600 million for him, which could be an NBA record.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Rockets have not confirmed any information outside the fact that they signed a contract extension with Durant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Houston Rockets, ESPN, and The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/nba\/rockets\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Rockets<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/sports\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; Months after a blockbuster trade to Houston, multiple reports say Kevin Durant has signed a multi-million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,3080,6376,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-11354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-rockets","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354","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=11354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}