{"id":829254,"date":"2026-07-28T14:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/829254\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T14:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:48:13","slug":"report-pelicans-negotiated-with-clippers-mathurin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/829254\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Pelicans negotiated with Clippers&#8217; Mathurin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Pelicans had recent contact negotiations with restricted free agent Bennedict Mathurin, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/2081942902393954804?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">NBA insider Marc Stein<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans and another unnamed suitor have shown interest in the Los Angeles Clippers forward, adds Stein.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles acquired Mathurin in February from the Indiana Pacers as part of the Ivica Zubac trade. The 24-year-old settled in nicely with the Clippers, averaging 17.4 points, 5.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists, and one steal across 26 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Mathurin starts or comes off the bench, the Canadian would provide a much-needed scoring punch to the Pelicans&#8217; 20th-ranked offense.<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans has yet to make a major addition to last season&#8217;s 26-56 squad. The Pelicans re-signed veteran center DeAndre Jordan and declined their $8-million team option for fellow big man Kevon Looney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Orleans Pelicans had recent contact negotiations with restricted free agent Bennedict Mathurin, NBA insider Marc Stein&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-829254","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\/829254","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=829254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}