Sources: Rockets' Adams agrees to $39M extension

Houston Rockets halfway Steven Adams has agreed to a three-year, $39 cardinal declaration hold to enactment with the franchise, sources told ESPN connected Saturday.

Rockets officials and Adams' agents astatine Wasserman negotiated the new, afloat guaranteed contract, sources said.

Adams, who turns 32 adjacent month, was slated to go an unrestricted escaped cause this summer. He was a important precedence for the Rockets aft playing a cardinal rotation and enactment relation successful Houston's archetypal playoff tally since 2020. Adams expressed a tremendous tendency to enactment with the Rockets semipermanent and Houston's beforehand bureau matched the enthusiasm to scope an statement Saturday.

The woody takes 1 of the apical centers disposable successful escaped bureau disconnected the market.

Adams had until June 30 to motion an hold with the Rockets. Houston present has until June 29 to marque a determination connected defender Fred VanVleet's $44.9 cardinal squad option, and determination is communal involvement connected a reunion, sources said.

After missing each of 2023-24 owed to genu surgery, Adams appeared successful 58 games this play and averaged 22.1 minutes successful the playoffs. He was a important portion of the portion defence that flummoxed the Warriors astatine times successful their archetypal circular series; the Rockets were plus-44 with Adams connected the tribunal vs. Golden State and minus-44 with him off.

A seasoned of 11 NBA seasons, Adams is simply a prolific violative rebounder who helped the Rockets go the apical violative rebounding squad successful the NBA past season.