The only downside is that Leonard spent the entire 2021-22 season rehabbing from knee surgery.
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Leonard declined his player option, then signed a four-year deal that includes a player option for 2024-25 to line up with Paul George’s December 2020 extension, eschewing a 1+1 (one guaranteed season, plus a player option for a second). Overall, the 2021 draft went well for LA. Boston has a combination of tangible skills and intangible energy that endeared him to the front office and his vets. Preston is the kind of pass-first point guard that is getting harder to find, and he impressed both coaches and teammates with his work habits during a redshirt year. Johnson isn’t on the team anymore, but he was an asset used to help acquire Norman Powell and Robert Covington from Portland in February.
Johnson was the only 2021 first-round pick who did not finish the season with his original team, Preston was the highest-selected player in the 2021 draft who did not appear in a game and Boston eclipsed 20 minutes only twice after the end of January.īut the 2021 draft allowed the Clippers to replenish their young corps. It wasn’t the most ideal season for any of the rookies. They used three future second-round picks to come out of the draft with three rookies. The Clippers entered last year’s draft with a lone late first-round pick. Until then, let’s take a brief look back at the team’s 2021-22 transactions: We’ll get new transactions this June, highlighted by the player option of Nicolas Batum and the team option of Ivica Zubac. It’s about to be Frank’s time of the year, and it actually started early with the contract extension for Robert Covington last month. Other teams have had front office shakeups, but the Clippers will keep the same brain trust in place for a sixth season. There may not even be any assistant coaches migrating, although it is too early to finalize a staff considering two teams still have head coaching vacancies.ĭespite missing the postseason and having no lottery pick, the front office, led by president of basketball operations Lawrence Frank, is in good standing. There won’t be any head coaching moves, with Tyronn Lue entrenched in the position.
That being said, this isn’t set up to be a notable offseason for the Clippers as far as roster changes are concerned.
It has been eight weeks since the LA Clippers last played a game, but the quiet part of their offseason will soon end, as the 2022 NBA Draft is just two weeks away.
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