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Clippers Expected To Be Frontrunners For Bradley Beal If Suns Buy Him Out

The LA Clippers are rumored to show interest in Bradley Beal if the Suns and the former All-Star agree on a contract buyout.

Chaitanya Dadhwal
Jul 2, 2025
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The Phoenix Suns have been stuck with Bradley Beal’s contract ever since the 2022-23 season, when they decided to blow up the core of the roster that went to the 2021 NBA Finals with Chris Paul and Deandre Ayton. At the end of the 2024-25 NBA season, it was reported that Beal may have played his last game as a Phoenix Suns player, as the two parties are expected to agree on a contract buyout for the former All-Star. But that never happened. 

Beal is potentially owed over $110 million over the next two seasons, a contract that is extremely hard to trade in today’s NBA for mainly two reasons: the no-trade clause of the contract and Beal no longer performing to a level that deserves over $50 million of a team’s limited annual salary cap space. However, according to us, if they do agree on a buyout, teams in the NBA could still be interested in Beal, just not for a contract of that scale. 

Further, as per Ohm Youngmisuk of ESPN, the Clippers are expected to be in the race for Bradley Beal if the Suns manage to find a way to buy him out or trade him if he waives his no-trade clause. 

“If Bradley Beal were to be bought out of his contract, perhaps the Clippers would be a player in that. That’s something some people have mentioned to me. Because the Clippers have always been advantageous about getting stars on the cheap when there’s a situation like that where they are bought out. In the past, they’ve had guards like John Wall, Rajon Rondo, and Russell Westbrook. They could be very advantageous if something unforeseen like that were to happen, like Bradley Beal getting bought out.” 

The Suns cannot waive Beal as the league rules don’t allow a team to have over 15% of their salary cap space tied up in waived and stretched contracts. A player who once averaged 31.3 points per game for the whole season (2020-21), Beal now only has role player-level numbers and no longer puts up stats like the superstar he once was. He averaged 17.0 points, 3.3 rebounds, and 3.7 assists per game last season.

The Suns have begun their rebuild around Devin Booker, and it is only a matter of time before they find a solution for Beal. Will Beal take the money in the buyout and accept that his career is nearing its end? Or will he fight for one more season with the Suns and show them he can form the elite backcourt duo with Booker that the Suns expected him to be? 

With Kevin Durant now in Houston, Beal has two options on how to go forward. Either the 32-year-old guard can forcefully stay on a team that doesn’t want him anymore and fight for a place on the team, or he can plan his exit by either waiving the no-trade clause or coming to a buyout agreement with the Suns so that his career can move forward in another team, like the Clippers. 

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ByChaitanya Dadhwal
Chaitanya Dadhwal is an NBA Analyst and Columnist at Fadeaway World from New Delhi, India. He fell in love with basketball in 2018 after seeing James Harden in his prime. He joined the sports journalism world in 2021, one year before finishing his law school in 2022. He attended Jindal Global Law School in Sonipat, India, where his favorite subject was also Sports Law.He transitioned from law to journalism after realizing his true passion for sports and basketball in particular. Even though his journalism is driven by his desire to understand both sides of an argument and give a neutral perspective, he openly admits he is biased towards the Houston Rockets and Arsenal. But that intersection of in-depth analysis and passion helps him simplify the fine print and complex language for his readers.His goal in life is to open his own sports management agency one day and represent athletes. He wants to ensure he can help bridge the gap in equal opportunity for athletes across various sports and different genders playing the same sport.
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