{"id":7868,"date":"2025-07-19T10:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T10:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/7868\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T10:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T10:57:08","slug":"bradley-beal-officially-signs-with-clippers-after-suns-buyout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/7868\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradley Beal officially signs with Clippers after Suns buyout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jul 18, 2025, 06:44 PM ET<\/p>\n

Bradley Beal<\/a> has officially signed with the LA Clippers<\/a>, the team announced Friday, after agreeing to a contract buyout<\/a> with the Phoenix Suns<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n

Beal’s deal with the Clippers is for two years and $11 million with a player option, his agent Mark Bartelstein told ESPN’s Shams Charania on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The player option for 2026-27 clears the way for Beal, 32, to be one of the top available players in free agency next summer.<\/p>\n

For the Clippers, Beal is a natural fit alongside Kawhi Leonard<\/a> and James Harden<\/a> as a scorer, playmaker and co-star. The Clippers signed<\/a> Brook Lopez<\/a> in free agency and traded Norman Powell<\/a> to the Miami Heat<\/a> in a three-team deal that brought forward John Collins<\/a> to the Clippers from the Utah Jazz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Beal, who averaged 21.5 points, 4.3 assists, 4.1 rebounds and 37.6% from behind the arc for his career, will slide into the starting spot at shooting guard with the departure of Powell.<\/p>\n

“Players of this caliber are very rare, and they’re hard to come by,” Clippers coach Tyronn Lue said in a statement. “He’s been the best player on his team. You can put him in so many different spots and he’ll find ways to score: out of pick-and-roll, coming off screens, catch-and-shoot. He can create his own or he can play off the ball. He’s a great cutter. He’s also a great playmaker who is going to make everybody else better.”<\/p>\n

Beal averaged 17.6 points, 4.3 assists, 3.8 rebounds, 50.5% field goal shooting and 40.7% 3-point shooting for the Suns over the past two seasons. He shot a career-best 57% on 2-pointers in 2024-25 and shot a career-high 66% on layups and dunks last season, according to GeniusIQ.<\/p>\n

Injuries and team disappointment marred both campaigns, however, as Beal played in just 106 out of a possible 164 games.<\/p>\n

Beal spent his first 11 NBA seasons with the Washington Wizards<\/a>, making All-Star teams in 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2020-21 and the All-NBA third team in 2021.<\/p>\n

Information from ESPN’s Shams Charania was included in this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 18, 2025, 06:44 PM ET Bradley Beal has officially signed with the LA Clippers, the team announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-7868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}