Bradley Beal returns to Clippers on reported 2-year, $13.2 million deal

Bradley Beal has agreed to a two-year, $32 million contract with the Los Angeles Clippers, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania. — a familiar home for the three-time All-Star as he returns to the court after missing nearly all of last season following surgery to repair a fractured hip.

Beal, 32, has averaged 21.4 points, 4.0 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 1.1 steals in 34.3 minutes per game in his career. Fun fact: He is one of just 64 players in NBA history to average 20-4-4 with at least 500 games played — and one of just 34 to do it with a career true shooting percentage (which factors in 2-point, 3-point and free-throw accuracy) north of .560.

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The 14-year veteran was something of a surprise addition to the open market, after he declined the $5.6 million player option he held for the 2025-26 season. Beal had inked a two-year, $11 million contract with the Clippers last summer after agreeing to terms with the Phoenix Suns on a buyout of the final two years of the $251 million extension he’d signed with the Washington Wizards in the summer of 2022.

That buyout — which saw the Suns waive-and-stretch $97 million worth of salary, putting a dead-cap hit of $19.4 million on their books through 2030 — marked the end of the infamous no-trade clause that Beal used to steer himself to Phoenix when he left D.C., that caused so much consternation as the Suns tried to find an off-ramp when the hoped-for Beal/Devin Booker/Kevin Durant big three didn’t pan out, and that led to a pact inked by a former All-NBA selection being widely referred to as the worst contract in the entire league.

The hope, when Beal agreed to that buyout and took a massive haircut to join the Clippers, was that he’d be able to rehabilitate his image by replicating his Phoenix production — 17 points, 3.3 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.1 steals in 32.1 minutes per game on 50/39/80 shooting splits — at a significantly lower price point alongside Kawhi Leonard and James Harden on a Clippers team that entered last season with designs on contending for a title. Those best-laid plans were almost immediately scuttled, though.

Beal opened the…

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Author : Dan Devine

Publish date : 2026-08-13 23:58:00

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