{"id":448813,"date":"2025-06-30T08:43:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T06:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=448813"},"modified":"2025-06-30T08:43:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T06:43:47","slug":"jabari-smith-jr-to-sign-122m-extension-with-houston-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jabari-smith-jr-to-sign-122m-extension-with-houston-rockets\/","title":{"rendered":"Jabari Smith Jr. to Sign $122M Extension with Houston Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"345\" data-end=\"565\"><strong data-start=\"360\" data-end=\"380\">Jabari Smith Jr.<\/strong> will sign a <strong data-start=\"393\" data-end=\"430\">five-year, $122 million extension<\/strong> with the <strong data-start=\"440\" data-end=\"459\">Houston Rockets<\/strong>, per <em data-start=\"465\" data-end=\"481\">Shams Charania<\/em>. The fully guaranteed deal keeps Smith under contract through the 2030-31 season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"567\" data-end=\"826\">The <strong data-start=\"571\" data-end=\"607\">No. 3 pick in the 2022 NBA Draft<\/strong>, Smith helped Houston secure the No. 2 seed in the West last season, averaging <strong data-start=\"687\" data-end=\"717\">12.2 points and 7 rebounds<\/strong> despite a mid-season hand injury. He impressed in the playoffs, shooting <strong data-start=\"791\" data-end=\"823\">45.5% from three-point range<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"828\" data-end=\"1103\">The Rockets made it clear Smith was untouchable during Kevin Durant trade talks, confirming his place in their long-term core. Houston has also re-signed VanVleet, extended Steven Adams and coach Udoka, and remains committed to building a contender around Durant and Smith.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">ESPN story on the Houston Rockets and Jabari Smith Jr. reaching agreement on a five-year, $122M rookie extension &#8212; locking in the only player from the 2022 draft class to accumulate 2,500 points and 1,500 rebounds so far: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XdmYnN4hjX\">https:\/\/t.co\/XdmYnN4hjX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1939484131768902017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 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 22-year-old forward agrees to a five-year, fully guaranteed deal, confirming his status as a core piece for Houston alongside Kevin Durant<\/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-448813","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\/448813","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=448813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448813\/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=448813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448813"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=448813"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=448813"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=448813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}