{"id":494409,"date":"2025-07-16T17:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T21:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=494409"},"modified":"2025-07-16T17:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T21:56:08","slug":"beal-leaves-suns-after-buyout-and-will-join-clippers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/beal-leaves-suns-after-buyout-and-will-join-clippers\/","title":{"rendered":"Beal leaves Suns after buyout and will join Clippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bradley Beal, who appeared 3 times in the NBA All-Star match, has agreed to a deal buyout with the Phoenix Suns and intends to sign with the Los Angeles Clippers on a 2-year, 11 million dollar contract with a player option after he clears waivers.<\/p>\n<p>The player option means that the former Suns star will be 1 of the best available basketballers in free agency next year during this time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking: Bradley Beal has agreed to a contract buyout with the Suns and plans to join the Clippers on a two-year, $11M deal, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shams?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@shams<\/a> \ud83d\udea8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0Tp7uMy4F7\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/0Tp7uMy4F7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1945537488145055752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>For LA, Bradley is a natural fit alongside Kawhi Leonard and James Harden as a scorer and also a playmaker. The Clippers added Brook Lopez and traded \u00a0Norman Powell to the Heat in a 3-team deal that secured John Collins to the team from the Jazz.<\/p>\n<p>After a 2-year run with the Suns that was not great, Beal decided that he wanted to try something new, and he discussed different options with different organizations in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>However, James Harden was the key for Bradley to go to the Clippers, as he was crucial in recruiting the player.<\/p>\n<p>Bradley is giving almost 14 million dollars out of the 110 million dollars on the final 2 years of his deal to complete the buyout with Phoenix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bradley Beal, who appeared 3 times in the NBA All-Star match, has agreed to a deal buyout with the Phoenix Suns and intends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":494410,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17552,17005],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[19856,17557],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Bradley agreed to a buyout with Phoenix.","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\/494409"}],"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=494409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/494409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494411,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/494409\/revisions\/494411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494409"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=494409"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=494409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}