{"id":446444,"date":"2025-06-14T21:13:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T19:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=446444"},"modified":"2025-06-14T21:13:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T19:13:49","slug":"steven-adams-agrees-to-3-year-39m-extension-with-houston-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/steven-adams-agrees-to-3-year-39m-extension-with-houston-rockets\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Adams agrees to 3-year, $39M extension with Houston Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1349\" data-end=\"1591\"><strong data-start=\"1349\" data-end=\"1365\">Steven Adams<\/strong> has signed a <strong data-start=\"1379\" data-end=\"1425\">three-year, $39 million contract extension<\/strong> with the <strong data-start=\"1435\" data-end=\"1454\">Houston Rockets<\/strong>, according to ESPN. The deal is fully guaranteed and confirms Houston\u2019s intention to keep the veteran center at the core of their plans.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1593\" data-end=\"1848\">Adams, who missed the 2023-24 season due to knee surgery, played 58 games and was a major factor in the Rockets&#8217; return to the playoffs. He anchored their zone defense and dominated the offensive glass, especially in the first-round win over Golden State.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1850\" data-end=\"2052\">With this move, the Rockets secure one of the most valuable big men on the market. <strong data-start=\"1933\" data-end=\"1989\">Adams led the NBA in offensive rebounding percentage<\/strong>, underlining his impact.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Just In: Houston Rockets center Steven Adams has agreed to a three-year, $39 million contract extension to stay with the franchise, sources tell ESPN. After playing a key rotation and leadership role in the Rockets&#8217; playoff run, the new deal keeps a top center out of free agency. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yWUnnQrRgh\">pic.twitter.com\/yWUnnQrRgh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1933954097821974734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand center will stay in Houston through 2028. The deal is fully guaranteed and takes a top free agent off the market<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":377622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-446444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/03\/Houston-Rockets.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446444"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=446444"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=446444"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=446444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}