{"id":438809,"date":"2023-06-29T15:04:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T19:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438809"},"modified":"2023-06-29T15:04:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T19:04:05","slug":"clippers-are-not-guaranteeing-gordons-contract","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/clippers-are-not-guaranteeing-gordons-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers are not guaranteeing Gordon&#8217;s contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Clippers waived Eric Gordon, meaning they will save 100 million dollars on their projected tax bill.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Now that Eric Gordon has hit the free-agent market, how much is he worth?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnhollinger?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@johnhollinger<\/a> updates his shooting guard rankings.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yJlm9rXDQ2\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/yJlm9rXDQ2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Athletic NBA (@TheAthleticNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticNBA\/status\/1674440336083496964?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The franchise from LA chose not to guarantee the guards a 21-million-dollar deal. Clips will decrease their projected tax bill from 169 million to 59 million dollars. The franchise is 18 million dollars over the 165-million-dollar tax threshold.<\/p>\n<p>The team traded Luke Kennard and John Wall for Gordon and 3 future 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round picks in February. Luke led the NBA in a 3-point shooting percentage for a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> straight campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Eric had 11 points and shot over 40 points from the 3-point line in 22 regular-campaign matches in his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> period with the Clippers. In the playoffs, he performed worse as he averaged 10 points and shot 34% from behind the arc in his franchise 1<sup>st<\/sup> round elimination from the Phoenix Suns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Clippers waived Eric Gordon, meaning they will save 100 million dollars on their projected tax bill. Now that Eric Gordon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":438810,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20177,17188,17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[20178,18478,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The franchise is not guaranteeing his $21M deal next campaign.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438809"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438809"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}