{"id":355937,"date":"2026-06-30T16:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355937\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T16:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:41:08","slug":"houston-is-expected-to-extend-an-8-01-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355937\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston is expected to extend an $8.01 million \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7408348\/2026\/06\/30\/rockets-nba-free-agency-tari-eason-contract\/?unlocked_article_code=1.uFA.EjTb.buSlWngwU9YC&amp;source=emp_shared_article&amp;smid=ta-ios-share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on New York Times\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\">Houston is expected to extend an $8.01 million qualifying offer to Eason, according to a team source, who was granted anonymity to discuss deliberations still in progress.<\/a> That move would officially make Eason a restricted free agent. Eason admitted that there were times last season when he struggled mentally with the scrutiny that came with playing a full season knowing his contract situation was unsettled. Unfortunately for him, there\u2019s a chance he won\u2019t be finalizing a new deal anytime soon as the Rockets sort through all the other business they have to handle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7408348\/2026\/06\/30\/rockets-nba-free-agency-tari-eason-contract\/?unlocked_article_code=1.uFA.EjTb.buSlWngwU9YC&amp;source=emp_shared_article&amp;smid=ta-ios-share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on New York Times\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston is expected to extend an $8.01 million qualifying offer to Eason, according to a team source, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,56,58,57,111437,58289,58290,6326,74914,58291,2518,9264,9070,217,46,15754,216,36],"class_list":["post-355937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-accessfree","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-sourcehoops-hype","tag-sstssportsnbarumors","tag-sstsnnba-rumors","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagfree-agency","tag-taghide-headline-hoops-hype","tag-taghouston","tag-taghouston-rockets","tag-tagnew-york-times-company","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtari-eason","tag-tx","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355937","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=355937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}