{"id":13559,"date":"2025-06-30T18:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T22:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/rockets-sign-dorian-finney-smith-key-reinforcement-with-a-53m-contract\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T18:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T22:48:09","slug":"rockets-sign-dorian-finney-smith-key-reinforcement-with-a-53m-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/rockets-sign-dorian-finney-smith-key-reinforcement-with-a-53m-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets sign Dorian Finney-Smith: Key reinforcement with a $53M contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Dorian Finney-Smith Bolsters the Houston Rockets with a Million-Dollar Contract<\/h2>\n<p>Free agent forward Dorian Finney-Smith has agreed to a four-year, $53 million contract with the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Tellem, Finney-Smith&#8217;s agent from Excel Sports, negotiated the terms of the deal with the Rockets executives.<\/p>\n<p>This is an important acquisition for Houston, as it reinforces their depth at the forward position with a veteran who had an outstanding performance in three-point shooting and defense.<\/p>\n<p>Finney-Smith could be a key piece in Houston&#8217;s rotation, potentially replacing Dillon Brooks.<\/p>\n<p>Finney-Smith, 32, opted out of his $15.4 million player option with the Los Angeles Lakers, making him a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>The forward arrived at the Lakers via a trade from Brooklyn in December, and immediately made an impact. He averaged almost 29 minutes per game with the Lakers, with 39.8% effectiveness in three-point shots.<\/p>\n<p>Finney-Smith, a versatile defender, was key to the functioning of the Lakers&#8217; fast-break units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorian Finney-Smith Bolsters the Houston Rockets with a Million-Dollar Contract Free agent forward Dorian Finney-Smith has agreed to a four-year, $53 million contract with the Houston Rockets. Michael Tellem, Finney-Smith&#8217;s agent from Excel Sports, negotiated the terms of the deal with the Rockets executives. This is an important acquisition for Houston, as it reinforces their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[65,3994,4530,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-13559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-contract","9":"tag-dorian-finney-smith","10":"tag-houston-rockets","11":"tag-nba"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}