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Houston Rockets defender Fred VanVleet intends to motion a two-year, $50 cardinal declaration to enactment with the franchise, with a subordinate enactment successful 2026-27, sources told ESPN.
The Rockets are declining VanVleet's $44.9 cardinal squad enactment for adjacent season, the sources said, and present onshore a caller woody with VanVleet's representative, Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul.
VanVleet, 31, returns to a Rockets roster precocious bolstered by the blockbuster trade for 15-time All-Star Kevin Durant.
VanVleet, a one-time All-Star and erstwhile NBA champion (2019 with the Toronto Raptors), has helped spearhead the Rockets' turnaround from lottery squad to playoff contender successful his 2 seasons with Houston.
An contiguous acceptable aft signing a three-year woody with the squad successful the summertime of 2023, VanVleet helped Houston amended from 22 wins to 41 successful his archetypal year. The Rockets past won 52 games to drawback the No. 2 effect successful the Western Conference this past season, ending a four-year postseason drought.
He averaged 14.1 points successful the 2024-25 season, his fewest successful a play since 2018-19, but averaged 18.7 points per crippled successful the playoffs. The Rockets were ousted successful the archetypal circular by the Golden State Warriors successful 7 games but that wasn't due to the fact that of VanVleet -- helium averaged 24.3 points connected 56% shooting and 64% connected 3-point attempts successful the past 4 games of the series, according to ESPN Research.
VanVleet is simply a hard-nosed defender who succeeds connected discourtesy done playmaking and measurement 3-point shooting -- helium was 2nd connected the squad successful 3-point attempts per crippled this past play with 7.7. He tends to conflict with efficiency, however, and changeable beneath 40% from the tract successful 2024-25 for the 4th clip successful his career.
The nine-year seasoned has averaged 14.9 points and 5.7 assists successful his career.
