{"id":418949,"date":"2026-07-03T04:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T04:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/?p=418949"},"modified":"2026-07-03T04:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T04:56:14","slug":"sources-eason-to-return-to-rockets-on-5-year-81-5m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/sources-eason-to-return-to-rockets-on-5-year-81-5m-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Eason to return to Rockets on 5-year, $81.5M deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Restricted free agent Tari Eason has agreed to a five-year, $81.5 million deal to return to the Houston Rockets, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deal is fully guaranteed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Rockets selected Eason in 2022 with the 17th pick in the draft, and the 25-year-old played a career-high 25 minutes per game last season, which included 60 games and 34 starts. He averaged 10.5 points, 6.3 rebounds and 1.2 steals. One of Houston&#8217;s top wing defenders, Eason has bounced back over the past two seasons after missing significant time during his second year in the NBA due to a lower left leg injury that raised questions about his durability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That likely played a role in the failed negotiations between the sides going into last season. Houston made a significant offer during the negotiations, sources said, but Eason&#8217;s side wanted more guaranteed money in the deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sides couldn&#8217;t reach an agreement on an extension before the deadline in October, making Eason a restricted free agent and giving Houston the right to match any offer made by another team in free agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eason earned $5.7 million in 2025-26 in the final team option year of his rookie contract and played well for the Rockets in the playoffs, raising his scoring average to 12.8 points on 47.7% shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restricted free agent Tari Eason has agreed to a five-year, $81.5 million deal to return to the Houston Rockets, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania on Thursday. The deal is fully guaranteed. The Rockets selected Eason in 2022 with the 17th pick in the draft, and the 25-year-old played a career-high 25 minutes per game last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418950,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418949\/revisions\/418950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}