{"id":356015,"date":"2026-06-30T17:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/356015\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T17:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:44:11","slug":"houston-is-expected-to-extend-an-8-01-million-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/356015\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston is expected to extend an $8.01 million \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk: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.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;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.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">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><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\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York Times&quot;}\" class=\"link \">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":356016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,126617],"class_list":["post-356015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-restricted-free-agent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356015","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=356015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}