{"id":484755,"date":"2024-06-29T21:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484755"},"modified":"2024-06-29T21:00:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T01:00:10","slug":"clippers-george-declines-his-option-entering-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/clippers-george-declines-his-option-entering-free-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers&#8217; George declines his option, entering free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Clippers superstar Paul George is declining his almost 49 million dollar option and will enter free agency.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Los Angeles Clippers star Paul George is declining his $48.7M option and entering free agency, sources tell ESPN. He\u2019s planning to set meetings with cap space teams and the Clippers beginning Sunday night. An opt-in\/trade scenario is now gone. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kASDp58eDD\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/kASDp58eDD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/1807152270930223230?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Paul is planning to meet with franchises that have enough salary cap space to potentially ink him and the Clippers beginning tomorrow night.<\/p>\n<p>With him declining his player option, the opt-in-and-trade scenario is no longer a possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Paul (34) is coming off a campaign in which he competed 74 regular campaign matches \u2013 his most since he was traded to the LA franchise before the 2019-20 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The 9-time All-Star averaged almost 23 points, over 5 boards and almost 4 assists. George shot career-highs of 47.1% from the field, over 40% from the 3-point line and over 90% from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p>After LA and Kawhi Leonard agreed to a 3 year, 153 million dollar extension at the beginning of the 2024, Paul believed that he would ink his own extension. He was eligible for an extension up to 4 years and 221 million dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Clippers superstar Paul George is declining his almost 49 million dollar option and will enter free agency. BREAKING: Los Angeles Clippers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484756,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17188,17837,17988],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18478,18734,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Paul opted out of his deal with Los Angeles.","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\/484755"}],"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=484755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484757,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484755\/revisions\/484757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484755"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484755"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}