{"id":438898,"date":"2023-06-30T23:55:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T03:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438898"},"modified":"2023-06-30T23:56:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T03:56:18","slug":"vanvleet-signs-3-year-contract-with-houston-rockets-as-a-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/vanvleet-signs-3-year-contract-with-houston-rockets-as-a-free-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"VanVleet signs 3-year contract with Houston Rockets as a free agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On an opening night of free agency Fred VanVleet is headed to a new home.<\/p>\n<p>He agreed to a three-year deal Friday with the Houston Rockets that\u2019ll pay him about $130 million, a person with knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>VanVleet \u2014 who famously uses the phrase \u201cbet on yourself\u201d to describe his career trajectory from undrafted player to NBA champion with the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/toronto-raptors\/\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> \u2014 will make about $525,000 per game over the next three seasons with the Rockets, which is close to how much he was making in Toronto as a rookies &#8211;\u00a0about $550,000.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Free VanVleet will make roughly $43.3M per year on his next deal ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m2k34CIXkz\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/m2k34CIXkz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNBACentral\/status\/1674942522735378432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLove seeing guys getting paid,\u201d Boston star Jayson Tatum tweeted regarding the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On an opening night of free agency Fred VanVleet is headed to a new home. He agreed to a three-year deal Friday with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":438901,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17681,17044],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18090,18346],"acf":{"announce":"He will receive $525,000 per game","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438898"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438898"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}