The Clippers won’t guarantee Eric Gordon‘s $20.9MM salary for next season, allowing the veteran guard to become an unrestricted free agent, tweets ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The team confirmed that Gordon has been waived.
The decision on Gordon was made with the luxury tax in mind, according to Andrew Greif of the Los Angeles Times (Twitter link). He adds that management liked how Gordon performed during his brief time with the team, but they want to give more minutes to younger guards rather than committing to a 34-year-old.
Getting rid of Gordon’s contract will reduce the Clippers’ projected tax bill for next season from $169MM to $59MM, tweets Bobby Marks of ESPN. The team currently projects to be $18MM over the $165MM luxury tax threshold.
L.A. acquired Gordon from the Rockets in a three-team deal at the trade deadline. He averaged 11.0 PPG and shot 42.3% from three-point range in his 22 regular season games with the Clippers and put up similar numbers in the playoffs.
Gordon was in the final season of a four-year, $75.5MM contract he signed with Houston in 2020. He could have guaranteed his fourth-year salary by making an All-Star team or reaching a minutes requirement in a championship season.
Hahaha, he’s undersized, weak and don’t play D, mostly a chucker
Look at his stats- dude is a baller.
Yup one of the most “lost” talents of the last decade.
Went unnoticed playing in crap markets on bad teams.
In his prime he was a Jack of all trades that stink at d. Crazy underrated pg skills
It’s bad you sound like a hater. Eric Gordon is 6’3 215 pounds so he’s shorter for a shooting guard but he got the size to guard twos and threes. He’s a solid defensive player and top 5 three point shooter in the NBA with range. He can shoot from 30 feet out with no problem. He never became a star and battled a lot of injuries but he’s been a solid role player.
come on you guys! don’t fight!
Vet min, Lakers or maybe Suns
Gordon can do better than a vet min contract if he wants to. If Bruce Brown leaves Denver I could see him ending up there.
I had expected them to trade Gordon for another asset, as his contract was non-guaranteed.
Guess there weren’t enough interesting players on the market… Not to warrant such a luxury tax anyway.
Wonder where Gordon will end up and how much he will earn.
CP3 was a possibility i guess… Better than Poole
Saves them $110,000,000. No wonder they didn’t guarantee it. Not even Ballmer is that loaded.
Sheeesh 20 mil for Eric Gordon sounds like a little bit of an overpaid but paying an extra 110 mill in tax to keep him is ridiculous.
This was an easy decision and no wonder they are looking to move Marcus Morris too.
Miami , Phoenix , LA lakers, Bucks make sense to sign him
Celtics !!!
He was a really strong fit for them, but fair enough with the money
Cleveland, Memphis, Knicks, Toronto, Portland if they get rid of Simons, Orlando, Detroi all make some kind of sense in no order
EG worth more than vet minimum. Very good 1st guard off bench – in right situation could be a 6th man of the year candidate.
Pacers make sense to me. IU alum and if moving Hield – moving Ben to starter – could anchor second unit.
Sixers make the most sense as the 6th or 7th man with Melton.
I’m starting to wonder about the negotiators for the players. The new cba seems to result in teams looking for inexpensive youngsters at the expense of the vets. Not too many unions would be happy with that outcome
The Clips have some good young guards who can pick up the minutes (Mann, but also Coffey and Brandon Boston), and he is kind of redundant with Powell already on the roster, but that’s a tough decision. He’ll be a solid contributor wherever he signs. Wonder how much it’ll cost to get him?
Sixers could use him. He’s a scorer shooter. And knows Hardens gm.
Everyone remembers him in space jam. The kid dunked the ball . He should sign for the minimum in Phoenix