{"id":15723,"date":"2025-07-17T06:33:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/15723\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T06:33:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:33:03","slug":"reports-bradley-beal-to-sign-with-la-clippers-after-suns-buyout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/15723\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Bradley Beal to sign with LA Clippers after Suns&#8217; buyout"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Smith believes Bradley Beal is a good fit alongside Kawhi Leonard and James Harden should he sign with the Clippers.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran guard Bradley Beal reportedly has agreed to a contract buyout with the Phoenix Suns and will become a free agent. Phoenix is expected to request waivers on Beal, who then intends to join the LA Clippers on a two-year, $11 million deal with a player option, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/45755171\/bradley-beal-agrees-buyout-suns-join-clippers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">per ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Beal is expected to give back $13.9 million of the $110 million he\u2019s owed from the Suns, which allows Phoenix more flexibility as it tries to rebuild its roster.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time NBA All-Star joined the Suns ahead of the 2023-24 season after spending his entire career with the Washington Wizards. The Suns finished last season with a 36-46 record, despite the league\u2019s most expensive roster that included the All-Star trio of Beal, Kevin Durant and Devin Booker.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Three-time NBA All-Star Bradley Beal has agreed to a contract buyout with the Phoenix Suns and plans to join the Los Angeles Clippers on a two-year, $11 million deal with a player option after clearing waivers, Mark Bartelstein of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrioritySports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@PrioritySports<\/a> told ESPN. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gxZB0ObSms\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/gxZB0ObSms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1945536796382654553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a busy summer for the Suns, which also dealt Durant to the Houston Rockets for a package that included Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks and the No. 10 overall pick in this year\u2019s draft, which the Suns used to select Duke center Khaman Maluach.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Beal would join a veteran Clippers roster that includes James Harden and Kawhi Leonard. Beal averaged 17.6 points over two disappointing, injury-filled seasons with the Suns.<\/p>\n<p>Beal averaged a career-high 31.3 points per game during the 2020-21 season for the Washington Wizards, but his production has slowly declined since that point as injuries have taken a toll. He\u2019s missed at least 29 regular-season games with various ailments in each of the past four seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steve Smith believes Bradley Beal is a good fit alongside Kawhi Leonard and James Harden should he sign&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[14917,355,99],"class_list":["post-15723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-bradley-beal-buyout","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}