{"id":352650,"date":"2025-10-19T23:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/352650\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T23:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:00:10","slug":"rockets-kevin-durant-signs-two-year-90-million-contract-extension-ahead-of-first-season-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/352650\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets’ Kevin Durant signs two-year, $90 million contract extension ahead of first season in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 told ESPN on Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

DID YOU SEE THIS: Thunder defeat Nuggets 94-91 on Ousmane Dieng\u2019s buzzer-beater in Oklahoma City<\/a><\/p>\n

Durant and the Rockets open the season against the Thunder on Tuesday. <\/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. <\/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

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. <\/p>\n

Houston was extremely active this offseason apart from the Durant acquisition. The Rockets also gave extensions to coach Ime Udoka, forward Jabari Smith<\/a> and center Steven Adams<\/a>, and signed Dorian Finney-Smith<\/a> in free agency. <\/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":"Kevin Durant is signing a two-year, $90 million contract extension with the Rockets after his midsummer trade from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[55866,7,4500,2679,6,50155,5241,310,475,179,3966,3965,55865,312],"class_list":{"0":"post-352650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-90-million-contract-extension-ahead-of-first-season-in-houston","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-news-9-kwtv-oklahoma-city","14":"tag-newsbreak","15":"tag-oklahoma","16":"tag-oklahoma-city","17":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","18":"tag-oklahomacity","19":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","20":"tag-rockets-kevin-durant-signs-two-year","21":"tag-thunder"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115403320850614048","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}