Whenever you can give one of the worst most injury prone players in the league a 2 year deal with a player option, you just have to do it.

NBA’s gonna announce that the Clippers giving him this deal is part of their punishment

Clippers want to be the lakers so badly they decided to give out player options to bad players smh

This feels like a Gary Trent Jr. situation all over again.

Or maybe hush money so Beal doesn’t squeal about last season.

I was really confused when Beal declined his initial player option this summer.

Seems now like that was maybe done as a favor, similar to James Harden with the Cavs right now, to help the Clippers have more options this summer, in exchange for some handshake deal that the Clippers would eventually sign him back to a bigger deal.

Which sets up the possibility that Beal and his agent can run this same scam next summer lol

Rob Pelinka: “Nice 👍”

It’s not a full NTC so huge discount

You’re paying him $6 mil a year. Chill.

Could have easily just done a one year deal and reassessed next year.

When I saw player option I assumed it was the Los Angeles Lakers and Rob Pelinka but color me surprised

Ballmer really hates having a losing team and he’s going to fight tooth and nail to do so, even if it means capping the team at 43 wins

Unfortunately for him, he hasn’t realized that this team is winning 30 games next year

Partial guarantee

To team him up with Rui for a championship run of course

Beal has the best agent on this planet

Genuinely his agent needs a raise on top of whatever he’s getting right now

His agent might be the best person at his job on the planet

Suse should introduce his agent to Kuminga

HOFer

He got more than LeBron.

No way lol. Bro’s coming off a hip injury that ruled him out very early into last season.

Played 5 bad games then broke his hip and got a raise

Truly astounding.

more than the greatest player of all time

Woah the Ronnie brewer flair that’s crazy

Bro got a fucking player option after breaking his hip

Out the fucking way Rich Paul this dude runs the league wtf

If it makes it any better, my team is still paying Beal 20 mil for the next four years.

Am I missing something? I feel like this is a pretty low risk deal. I know he’s shown to be injury prone but who else were the clippers supposed to target?

They are better than where they were at the start of last year. Oldest team in the league & somehow managed to turn that around & retain some intriguing pieces. I could see Beal used as a trade target at the deadline depending on how he does

Ballmer got scammed again!

\(340 million in career earnings after this contract. For a guy whose career had zero impact on the league. 807 games played. \)421,000 per game. Never got out of the second round.

Zero stress. Just kept getting paid and paid. Life doesn’t get any better than that.

Stupid is the direction

It is hard to figure the direction when we dont know if Kawhi is going be here or traded

Down

The draft changes are about to make a lot of teams just the right kind of mediocre to not bottom out

He’s giving you a number

And taking away your cap 

Goated

Also represents Keegan Murray who has a 28m AAV contract

He’s handling my divorce

Agent of the year ?

Lucas Newton (Gary Trent ⁴⁄₆₄) or Mark Bartelstein (Beal) ?

This right here. They’re punishing themselves hoping for some leniency from the league. Lol

New Orleans one notable off-season move??

Nets will take him. You guys can have Mann and a couple second round picks.

Mathurin out? even then he’s coming out of a major injury

Sponsored by United Wholesale Mortgage

The crazy part is he got paid more and got a player option lmao

Clippers brazenly daring the League to FAFO.

I don’t hate it? Ballmer becoming the new Al Davis could be wildly entertaining.

No, people just insist he’s the worst player ever because he was one of the worst value players in league history given his max deal.

6.6M a year with a $3M guarantee next season is nothing. If he sucks, you eat the guarantee. If he plays anything like he did in Phoenix, then he’s worth a couple of 2nds to a contender.

This is an absolute no risk, small upside move for LAC. But everyone here seems to think they wasted notable money on a completely serviceable vet.

Yes

Worst case of Stockholm syndrome I’ve ever seen

Funny, people were swearing he heat should pick him up for at least vibes, but clips do it and its terrible

His agent, Mark Bartelstein, might belong in the HOF for how he’s maximized Beal’s earnings.