Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey awarded a contract extension to guard Eric Gordon in late August, but it doesn’t sound as if an extension is coming this year for either forward P.J. Tucker or head coach Mike D’Antoni.

In a question-and-answer (Q&A) story published Thursday by Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle, Morey said this when asked about a potential Tucker extension:

We’re open to the concept of extensions early. We have done it with players in the past. Normally, it’s the James Harden type players. We’re open to it. That said, I have found you don’t really get to an agreement with what both sides are looking at to how the extension can work realistically until you are one year out. I wouldn’t expect any other extension from us this year, mostly because everyone is signed for multiple years.

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Tucker said in August that he was optimistic about reaching an extension agreement with the team. By the terms of the current deal Tucker signed in July 2017, he is slated to earn $8.3 million in the 2019-20 season and $8.0 million in 2020-21 — though less than half of the final year is fully guaranteed.

When asked about whether the Rockets might fully guarantee that final year, Morey did not close the door to it. “That kind of stuff is between us and representation,” Morey told Feigen. “I’m not going to announce stuff in a Q&A.”

Now 34 years old, Tucker is especially known for his defense, leadership, and corner three-point shooting. The 6-foot-6 forward was the only Rockets player to start all 82 games last year, and he is again slated as the starting power forward for the 2019-20 season.

Last fall, Houston head coach Mike D’Antoni referred to Tucker as “one of the best players in the league.”

As for D’Antoni himself, Morey also said in his Q&A with Feigen that the Rockets are not planning to re-open contract talks with their head coach until after the upcoming 2019-20 season. D’Antoni is entering the final year of the four-year contract he signed in 2016.

“I think everyone wants it to be longer,” Morey said of D’Antoni’s contract. “It takes two to tango to come to terms. We haven’t. At this point, he’ll coach this season and we’ll figure out how to keep Mike around after. … The plan now is to pick it up after the season.”

Elsewhere in the Q&A, Morey said he had been “authorized to do what it takes to win a title,” referring to Houston’s ownership, led by Tilman Fertitta. Morey added that he expects the team to go above the luxury tax threshold this season for total payroll.