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James Harden to signal two-year, $81.5 million cope with the Clippers

By Editorial Board Published July 9, 2025 4 Min Read
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James Harden to signal two-year, .5 million cope with the Clippers

Clippers executives have been severe once they mentioned they’d not soured on James Harden’s future with the franchise after an underwhelming postseason efficiency.

Harden declined his participant possibility for $36 million with the Clippers on Sunday and intends to signal a two-year cope with the crew for $81.5 million, league sources with data of the deal not approved to debate it publicly mentioned. The second yr is a participant possibility and is partially assured.

The deal gave Harden a increase and the Clippers some wage flexibility going ahead.

“He’s our No. 1 priority,” Lawrence Frank, the Clippers’ president of basketball operations, advised the media after the primary spherical of the draft Wednesday night time. “We’re super hopeful that James is here and he’s here for a long time. He has a player-option, so he can opt-in … or he can opt-out and hopefully we can do a deal that makes sense for both sides. But James, as you guys know, was phenomenal and we hope to continue to see his play.”

Although the Clippers drafted a middle within the first spherical with the thirtieth choose, getting Yanic Konan Niederhauser of Penn State, Frank mentioned his crew “probably will have at least three centers.”

The Clippers can use their non-taxpayer mid-level exception that’s projected to be about $14.1 million on a participant or two, and maybe even discover a heart.

Harden performed in 79 video games this previous season, performed the fifth-most complete minutes within the NBA (2,789), was fifth within the league in assists (8.7), averaged 22.8 factors per sport and was the one participant with 1,500 factors, 500 assists, 100 steals and 50 blocks.

Harden, nonetheless, struggled in the course of the postseason, averaging 18.7 factors per sport within the sequence the Clippers misplaced to the Nuggets. He scored simply 33 factors mixed in Video games 4, 5 and seven losses, together with seven factors in Recreation 7.

Clippers guard James Harden appears to be like to shoot in the course of the crew’s win over San Antonio Spurs on April 8 at Intuit Dome.

(Carrie Giordano / Related Press)

Harden turns 36 in August and was not made obtainable to talk with media throughout conventional exit interviews each crew usually hosts to shut out a season.

“When it was James this year with no Kawhi, with Norm [Powell] and [Ivica] Zubac and the rest of the group, we really asked James to do a lot,” Frank mentioned shortly after the Clippers have been eradicated from the playoffs.

“And at his age to deliver what he did…[He played in] 79 games, and he does that time and time and time again. We have a deep appreciation for that sort of availability and to be able to deliver and do what he did…We have a great level of appreciation for what James did this year.”

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