{"id":819115,"date":"2026-07-23T17:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/819115\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T17:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:20:18","slug":"new-nba-rumors-on-potential-bennedict-mathurin-sign-and-trade-amid-clippers-contract-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/819115\/","title":{"rendered":"New NBA Rumors on Potential Bennedict Mathurin Sign-and-Trade Amid Clippers Contract Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Los Angeles Clippers are willing to work on a potential sign-and-trade agreement with restricted free agent Bennedict Mathurin, according to NBA insider Jake Fischer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fischer and NBA insider Marc Stein<\/a> reported Thursday that the Clippers’ “preferred outcome” is to re-sign Mathurin, but they haven’t ruled out participating in a sign-and-trade that sends him elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles acquired the 24-year-old as part of a trade<\/a> with the Indiana Pacers that was headlined by center Ivica Zubac joining Indiana on Feb. 5.<\/p>\n

Mathurin primarily operated as a bench scorer throughout his tenure on the Pacers, but stepped into a larger role to open last season as star point guard Tyrese Haliburton recovered from a torn Achilles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 54 combined appearances with Indiana and Los Angeles during Mathurin’s 2025-26 campaign, he averaged a career-high 17.6 points and 2.4 assists per game. He also shot a career-low 43.0 percent from the field and 31.5 percent from three-point territory, though.<\/p>\n

If the Clippers aren’t willing to make a financial commitment to Mathurin, they could find a sign-and-trade partner and receive assets in exchange for him.<\/p>\n

He also has the option to accept his $8.8 million qualifying offer and stay with Los Angeles next season (h\/t SI.com’s Cem Yolbulan<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In that scenario, Mathurin would have the ability to veto any trade throughout the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Clippers are willing to work on a potential sign-and-trade agreement with restricted free agent Bennedict…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-819115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}