Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

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Jake Fischer: Being told the Clippers haven’t yet withdrawn their qualifying offer to Bennedict Mathurin, but Los Angeles will indeed work with Mathurin and New Orleans to get him to the Pelicans. This deal still has some pieces to sift through. When the Clippers made the Ivica Zubac trade, Lawrence Frank was pretty open that it was primarily about the picks. LA was happy to get Bennedict Mathurin, and he had some good moments, but there clearly wasn’t a huge urgency to keep him. I'm told that the agreement that Bennedict Mathurin has with the New Orleans Pelicans is contingent upon one tricky detail The LA Clippers would have to withdraw Mathurin's qualifying offer. Mathurin is a restricted free agent. And it sounds like the Clippers did not want to do that but would eventually choose to let him go.

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