Donatas Motiejunas and the Rockets finally agree on a 4-year contract

Restricted free agent Donatas Motiejunas and the Houston Rockets have agreed on a 4-year deal worth $35 million. The contract is guaranteed for the remainder of this season at $8.3 million, and the Rockets will have team options in July of each of the next three years, per Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski.

Motiejunas can return to the team once he passes his physical.

The signing comes days after Houston matched the Brooklyn Nets’ 4-year, $37 million offer sheet that included $6 million worth of incentives. The Rockets, however, did not match Brooklyn’s incentives and matched with a 4-year, $31 million deal. Motiejunas and his agent, B.J. Armstrong, held out of his Tuesday physical until a new contract offer was reached.

Houston reportedly bumped his contract up from $31 million to $35 million in exchange for pushing the date Motiejunas’ contract guarantees for next season to mid-July. He also has bonuses that could push his salary to $37 million over the life of the deal.

The 26-year-old big man remained a restricted free agent after opting to let the Rockets’ $4.4 million qualifying offer expire on Oct. 1. He then signed a 4-year offer sheet with the Nets. But as the team that drafted Motiejunas 20th overall in the 2011 NBA draft, the Rockets reserved and exercised the right to match Brooklyn’s offer.

Motiejunas has been a serviceable player when healthy. In 71 games, including 62 starts for the Rockets in the 2014-15 season, Motiejunas averaged 12 points on 50 percent shooting from the field and 36.8 percent shooting from downtown.

But the Lithuanian shooter has rarely been healthy, playing in just 214 of 328 possible games in his four-year NBA career.

Motiejunas appeared in just 37 games for the Rockets last season. He averaged 6.2 points on 28 percent shooting from three-point range.