{"id":102415,"date":"2024-10-21T16:46:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T20:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=102415"},"modified":"2024-10-21T16:46:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T20:46:55","slug":"rockets-sign-jalen-green-first-kind-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/10\/21\/rockets-sign-jalen-green-first-kind-contract-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets Sign Jalen Green To First-Of-Its-Kind Contract Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston Rockets shooting guard Jalen Green<\/a> \u201chas agreed to a three-year, $106 million rookie contract extension<\/a> with the franchise,\u201d per ESPN insider Shams Charania. \u201cThe deal includes a player option in the third season, providing Green the ability to increase his earning potential down the road.\u201d<\/p>\n

With this contract agreement, the 2021 No. 2 pick has become \u201cthe first NBA player ever to successfully negotiate a 2-plus-1 rookie extension on a nine figure deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rockets Sign Jalen Green To First-Of-Its-Kind Extension<\/h2>\n

There was a time when it seemed like Green was on the verge of being traded. In fact, if the rumors are true, the Rockets tried to ship him off<\/a> to the Brooklyn Nets in exchange for Mikal Bridges<\/a>. The Nets obviously turned the deal down, eventually sending Bridges to the New York Knicks for a pile of first-round picks. However, in that moment, Green\u2019s future was its cloudiest.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t just that Houston was questioning whether he should continue to be a franchise cornerstone. The league as a whole was wondering whether Green would get his act together on the court. Though a supremely gifted athlete with a knack for putting the ball in the basket, he didn\u2019t play smart or hard enough. Rockets head coach Ime Udoka was unenthused, hounding the California native who was expected to be their top dog.<\/p>\n

Pressure Bursts Pipes And Produces Diamonds<\/h3>\n

To be fair, Udoka didn\u2019t make it easy for Green \u00a0to get off to a good start in 2023-24.<\/p>\n

With the arrivals of Fred VanVleet<\/a> and Dillon Brooks<\/a>, Green had fewer opportunities to impact the game with the ball in his hands. Instead of letting Green play through mistakes, he shortened his leash, especially in the fourth quarter. Even when Green played well, Udoka often responded with tough love.<\/p>\n

Perhaps, like a drill sergeant, Udoka was trying to see how much Green could take. To that point, a player who wasn\u2019t mentally strong enough would\u2019ve folded. To Green\u2019s credit though, while he was definitely frustrated by the situation, it didn\u2019t break him. Pressure can either burst pipes or produce a diamond and in his case it was the latter.<\/p>\n

From the 2024 All-Star Break through the 2024-25 preseason, Green has played with irrefutable effort. He\u2019s better at processing what he needs to do at both ends. He\u2019s even playing with better balance and pace, looking like the type of star who can dominate offensively for the next decade.<\/p>\n

When Green inked his extension, that was likely on the front office\u2019s mind. He still needs to prove that his<\/em> new mindset<\/a> is here to stay. However, the doubts surrounding him are slowly melting away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Houston Rockets shooting guard Jalen Green \u201chas agreed to a three-year, $106 million rookie contract extension with the franchise,\u201d per ESPN insider Shams Charania. \u201cThe deal includes a player option in the third season, providing Green the ability to increase his earning potential down the road.\u201d With this contract agreement, the 2021 No. 2 pick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":102416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1608,62,3],"tags":[3821,3256,297],"class_list":["post-102415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rockets","category-basketball","category-nba","category-news","tag-ime-udoka","tag-jalen-green","tag-nba-free-agency"],"modified_by":"Quenton S Albertie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}