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Dorian Finney-Smith Contract & Salary Breakdown

Originally posted on Athlon Sports | By Sam Dunn | Last updated Jun 30, 2025 7:54 PM ET

Dorian Finney-Smith's NBA career has been one of constant adjustment and reinvention. In so doing, he's quite arguably become the platonic ideal of basketball's plug-and-play glue guy.

After starting his college career at Virginia Tech, he achieved a national profile after transferring to play for Billy Donovan's Florida Gators, riding a Final Four appearance and two Second Team All-SEC nods to a role with the Dallas Mavericks after going undrafted in 2016.

What happened since? He became Mr. 3-and-D, growing into an opportunistic shooter with the kind of defensive switchability that would-be NBA contenders' front offices drool over.

It was only natural, then, that the 2025 offseason period would bring plenty of suitors for "Doe Doe" after the nine-year veteran declined his player option with the Los Angeles Lakers, who previously acquired him mid-season from the Brooklyn Nets -- and on June 30, we learned where the versatile forward was officially headed:

Back to Texas for a team-up with none other than Kevin Durant.

As first reported by ESPN's Shams Charania, let's take a closer look at the Houston Rockets' spiffy Dorian Finney-Smith contract.

Dorian Finney-Smith Contract Details & Salary

All dollar figures via Spotrac.

Years: 4
Total value: $53,000,000
Average annual value: $13,250,000
Free agency: 2030

In 2024-25, Finney-Smith averaged 8.7 points, 3.9 rebounds, and 1.4 assists on 44.8% shooting from the field, all the while playing irreplaceable tenacious defense. He saw playoff action with the 50-32 Lakers, but crashed out in the first round 4-1 at the hands of the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Now, he heads to an upwardly mobile Houston team that has finally started to turn heads under coach Ime Udoka.

And he's getting a payday that will nearly double his on-court earnings to date in order to do it.