The Los Angeles Clippers have matched the Golden State Warriors' four-year, $43 million signed by restricted free agent center DeAndre Jordan, reports Yahoo!'s Adrian Wojnarowski. Jordan had signed the Warriors' offer on Sunday after rejecting the Clippers' offer for $40 million over five years.
The move came on the heels of L.A.'s winning bid in the Chauncey Billups' amnesty auction. Under a salary cap loophole, the Clippers were able to bid for Billups by being under the cap due to Jordan's tiny salary cap hold, even though the Warriors' $10 million offer sheet was on the table. The Clippers reportedly did not amnesty any players on Monday to make room.
Jordan averaged seven points, seven rebounds and two blocks per game last season. To sign Jordan to the offer sheet, the Warriors waived Jeremy Lin and Charlie Bell, the latter under the amnesty provision, and rescinded the team's qualifying offer to Reggie Williams, making the small forward an unrestricted free agent.
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The Warriors threw away Williams and Lin and blew the amnesty on a tiny expiring contract, and now have nothing to show for it? Awesome. Same old Dubs. I’d say that it was about 90% obvious that the Clips were going to match that offer. Looks like another season of Biedrins playing about 30 games, and then Amundson and a D-Leaguer getting the rest of the minutes. Or Lee at Center and a “small” PF. Sweet.
by ahhall on Dec 12, 2011 7:44 PM EST reply actions
Don't trip fella
We got Kwame Brown! And Jeremy Tyler! What could go wrong?
by RACE!! on Dec 13, 2011 11:40 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
After a day to reflect
I realized that while I like Reggie, he is hugely flawed and extremely replaceable, and that I’d rather see Klay Thompson play anyway.
Then I remember that Lin didn’t actually play much last year, and that it is extremely likely that he will never be good. I just got caught up in feel-good story, hoping that the local boy would make good.
I still think we wasted the amnesty on Bell, but it is nice to know with 100% certainty that he won’t ever don a Dubs uniform this year. And there was really no one else to cut. We need Biedrins so that we can at least pretend to have a starting center. Just wish that they’d decided to make the amnesty clause back when we had Maggette and SJax ruining our payroll.
Conclusion: You know your team is bad when you sign Kwame Brown, and it clearly makes your team BETTER.
And that’s what it feels like to be a Warriors fan. Don’t worry, I also get to root for the A’s during the summer, so that totally makes up for it.
by ahhall on Dec 13, 2011 5:09 PM EST up reply actions
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