{"id":746913,"date":"2026-05-29T08:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/746913\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T08:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:42:18","slug":"houston-rockets-2025-26-player-grades-tari-eason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/746913\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets 2025-26 player grades: Tari Eason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/houston-rockets\/10\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Houston Rockets;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 Rockets&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Houston Rockets<\/a> forward Tari Eason played solid minutes during the 2025-26 season, his fourth year in the NBA. The former LSU product played a career-high 25.8 minutes per game, making 60 appearances, 34 of which were starts.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the former No. 17 overall selection didn&#8217;t make many improvements. The most notable areas where Eason took a step back were field goal percentage (career-low 41.6%), turnovers (career-worst 1.4), blocks per game (career-low 0.5) and scoring (10.5 points per game). Eason still showed many positives when on the court, most notably his energy, athleticism and defensive activity. But it&#8217;s safe to say Houston had probably hoped for more from the forward in his contract year. Now that Eason is a restricted free agent, Houston will have to decide how much they believe he&#8217;s worth.<\/p>\n<p>Overall grade: C+<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Rockets Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/rocketswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/rockets\/2026\/05\/28\/rockets-2025-26-player-grades-tari-eason\/90303051007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rockets 2025-26 player grades: Tari Eason;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;Rockets 2025-26 player grades&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Rockets 2025-26 player grades: Tari Eason<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets forward Tari Eason played solid minutes during the 2025-26 season, his fourth year in the NBA.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,4608,292,194,4066,6,211,873],"class_list":["post-746913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-rockets","tag-basketball","tag-field-goal-percentage","tag-houston","tag-houston-rockets","tag-houstonrockets","tag-nba","tag-rockets","tag-tari-eason"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116656979565295863","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746913","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=746913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}