Kevin Durant's Salary, Contracts, Earnings, Endorsements

Kevin Durant signed a two-year, $90 million contract extension with the Houston Rockets. The deal includes a 2027-28 player option. For the 2026-27 season, his salary is $43,902,439. He is due $54.7 million in 2025-26 in the final year of his deal. He has signed 8 contracts worth a total value of $727,606,030. He will be a UFA at the end of the 2027-28 season when he is 39 years old.

The extension pushes his total career earnings, encompassing past and future guaranteed salaries, to $598.2 million. This dethrones LeBron James, who has $583.9 million, for the top spot. Off the court, the 16-time All-Star banked an estimated $49 million over the 12 months ending in May 2026, thanks to a portfolio of sponsors including Nike, FanDuel and Fanatics.

What is Kevin Durant's salary?

Kevin Durant's salary for the 2025-26 season is $54,708,609, the final year of his current deal. He gets $54.7 million. Then, his 2026-27 salary is $43,902,439, and approximately $45 million in 2027-28 if he has a player option, which is why that season is not guaranteed. His before-tax salary is $48,554,830, and after taxes his salary is $31,584,204 for the 2025-26 basketball year. His deal with the team from Brooklyn lasts four years, and the money from his deal is $194,219,320. His weekly salary is approximately $2,163,614, so he gets $667,180.59 per game because of a full season of games. Kevin Durant's total NBA career earnings are a record $598.2 million USD, and that's why he is the NBA's all-time career earnings leader.

What is Kevin Durant's current contract?

Kevin Durant signed a two-year, $90 million contract extension with the Houston Rockets on Oct 19, 2025. The deal includes a player option for the 2027-28 season, and that's when he becomes an unrestricted free agent at age 39. The contract has a cap hit that ranges from $43,902,439 to $46,097,561. It does not have a no-trade clause because Kevin Durant's contract doesn't have a part that stops a trade. He gave up a trade bonus that was eligible for extra money if traded, equal to 15 percent of his salary. The extension has $500,000 per year for playing in a match and a bonus of $29,412 per game active each week. So, the contract is worth $90 million, and it is a two-year extension with the Rockets.

What is Kevin Durant's contract history?

Kevin Durant signed a 4 year $19.5 million contract with Seattle on Jul 02, 2007. Kevin Durant then signed a 5 year $89 million maximum rookie scale extension with Oklahoma City on Jul 07, 2010. He next joined Golden State and signed a 2 year $54.3 million maximum contract on Jul 04, 2016, with a player option after the first year. On Jul 06, 2017, he signed a 2 year $51.25 million contract with the Warriors, taking less than the maximum, which helped the franchise keep salary cap space. On Jul 07, 2018, Kevin Durant signed a 2 year $61.5 million contract with Golden State that included a player option for the second year.

Kevin Durant signed a 4 year $164.26 million contract with Golden State as part of a sign-and-trade with Brooklyn on Jul 07, 2019, which included a 2022 player option. He was traded to the Phoenix Suns in February 2023, and last season with Phoenix, Durant was paid a salary of $47,649,433. Kevin Durant signed a 4 year $194.22 million contract extension with Brooklyn on Aug 08, 2021. That is his maximum total value contract. On Oct 19, 2025, Kevin Durant signed a 2 year $90 million contract extension with Houston, including a 2027-28 player option. Kevin Durant Makes NBA History with $90 Million Extension, Surpassing LeBron James' Career Earnings Record. His career average annual value is $43,019,650.

What are Kevin Durant's total earnings?

Kevin Durant's total NBA career earnings are $598.2 million, the most in NBA history. That figure includes past and future guaranteed salaries, and it surpasses LeBron James' total of $583.9 million. His total cash received through the 2025-26 season is approximately $399.5 million, and $198.7 million in salary is not yet paid.

Off the court, Durant banked an estimated $49 million over the 12 months ending in May 2026, thanks to sponsors like Nike, Fanatics and FanDuel. His money from outside basketball is $50 million per year, so his total career earnings will reach $1 billion by the season starting in 2025. That's why he joins Stephen Curry in the $1 billion career earnings club.

Kevin Durant is not a billionaire. His net worth is $300 million to $400 million, so his wealth is three hundred million dollars. All told, his total earnings have eclipsed $500 million because of his record NBA salary and off-court deals.

What endorsement deals does Kevin Durant have?

Kevin Durant has endorsement deals with companies like Nike, American Family Insurance and Alaska Airlines. Thanks to his portfolio of sponsors including Nike, Fanatics and FanDuel, he banked an estimated $49 million off the court. He gets $80 million from endorsements, and his Nike agreement gets $36 million annually.

Durant signed his first endorsement with Nike in 2007. That's when his initial endorsement was 7 years and worth $60 million, which has a $10 million signing bonus. In 2014, he agreed to a 10-year, $285 million contract with the sneaker brand, because Nike beat Under Armour offer, and Under the amount of the Armour deal is between $265 million and $285 million. So, his Nike endorsement contract is deal for his whole life, with no publicly disclosed sum. However, profit-sharing and other circumstances help him make even more money.

Durant has parlayed his endorsement deals into branded content deals for his media company. Kevin Durant's company for TV and online shows is Kevin video and internet show business, and the company runs the integration. Endorsement deals is ads that look like regular videos deals, so transactions make branded content, and traditional is not the exclusive. For example, on Aug. 21, Thirty Five Media premiered "Dream To Acheive," an episodic series on Durant's YouTube channel featuring American Family Insurance as presenting sponsor, not because of Durant pitching on the insurance company's behalf.

By the way, Durant makes millions of dollars every year because of his lucrative contract with Foot Locker. He has endorsement deals with Gatorade, which is active endorsement partner, and with Panini, 2K Sports, and General Electric. Sprint is not active endorsement partner. He also signed a deal with Coinbase as a brand ambassador on December 22, 2021. And he has endorsement deals with Alaska Airlines, which was got as brand ambassador in September 2017, and with insurance for families in the U.S., which is American Family Insurance, since January 2015.