#kevin-durant

#kevin-durant

Kevin Durant said he envisions himself signing a contract extension with the Rockets and described how a bond and respect level with coach Ime Udoka led him to engineer a trade to bring him to Houston. Durant is in the final year of a contract that will pay him $55 million and is eligible to sign a new deal. There was some belief that Durant would work out a contract extension with the Rockets as a part of Houston's deal with the Suns.

The Houston Rockets have one of the league's most dynamic young cores - led by Alperen Sengun and two-way star Amen Thompson - buoying them to the No. 2 seed in the West last year. However, they lost a rock fight in the first round against Stephen Curry, Jimmy Butler and the Golden State Warriors. Despite sporting a top-5 defense, the Rockets were a bottom-nine halfcourt offense with the eighth-worst effective field goal percentage and seventh-worst true-shooting percentage. They needed at least one other creator.

We've yet to be able to track down his Coinbase account info, so we've never sold anything, and this bitcoin is just through the roof,

Wiggins averaged just 11.5 points per game on 37.2% shooting during a disappointing showing, missing 15 of 32 regular-season games.

"We had this conversation in Portland I think right before a game, and I'm like, 'Who am I spending my next five years with?'" said Durant. "I had just signed that deal, you had just signed a deal. It felt like we were secure, but everything else around us was going to s-t."