With eleven players signed for the upcoming campaign, the Rockets enter the offseason. They will almost definitely operate under the luxury tax rather than the salary cap, allowing them to take advantage of the non-tax, mid-level exception during free agency.
Examining the Rockets’ contract circumstances, along with the 2024–25 salary of each player:
The final season of his contract, worth $44,886,930 in 2025-26, is not fully guaranteed.
Jonathan Feigen has been the Rockets beat writer since 1998 and a basketball nut since before Willis Reed limped out for Game 7. He can be reached at
Feigen became a sports writer because the reporter who was supposed to cover the University of Delaware basketball team decided to instead play one more season of college lacrosse and has never looked back.
Feigen, who has won APSE, APME and United States Basketball Writers Association awards from El Campo to Houston, came to Texas in 1981 to cover the Rice Birds, was sports editor in Garland before moving to Dallas to cover everything from the final hurrah of the Southwest Conference to SMU after the death penalty.
