{"id":663618,"date":"2026-03-17T21:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/663618\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:35:18","slug":"vote-do-you-expect-tari-eason-back-with-the-rockets-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/663618\/","title":{"rendered":"VOTE: Do you expect Tari Eason back with the Rockets next season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NBA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Rockets fans and fans across the country. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsurvey.co.uk\/s\/8SCRL8\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up here<\/a> to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tari Eason bet on himself this past offseason, turning down a $100 million contract with the Rockets because the team put in an injury clause. He elected to play this year without a new deal and see what restricted free agency could bring. And while Eason\u2019s defense has slipped immensely, as he\u2019s having the worst defensive season of his career (not a plus defender in 2025-2026), he at least started out the year shooting red hot from deep. But now that his long-range shooting has come back to Earth, and his defense is still bad, combined with the immense injury concerns, Eason may have just played himself out of a big deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Rockets are still high on Eason, but who knows if another team is going to offer a deal, and if they do, do the Rockets match? How much do they still value Eason after a down year that just also so happens to be a contract year?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This week\u2019s question wants to know if you expect Eason back with the Rockets next season?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cast your vote, tell us in the comments, and we\u2019ll be back in a few days with the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NBA. Throughout the year we ask questions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,292,194,65342,4066,6,211],"class_list":{"0":"post-663618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-rockets","11":"tag-houston-rockets-discussion","12":"tag-houstonrockets","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-rockets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116246670445176914","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663618","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=663618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}