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Ohm Youngmisuk, ESPN Employees Author
Versatile guard Terance Mann has agreed to a three-year, $47 million contract extension with the LA Clippers, sources confirmed to ESPN on Friday.
Mann, who turns 28 subsequent month, began a career-high 71 video games final season and averaged 8.8 factors to go together with 3.4 rebounds. With Paul George leaving for Philadelphia in free company and Kawhi Leonard rigorously coping with irritation in his surgically repaired proper knee coming into subsequent week’s coaching camp, Mann can have the most important alternative of his profession to showcase what he can do.
“Tremendous excited to re-sign with the crew who has been with me from the start,” Mann instructed Andscape’s Marc Spears. “It has been an ideal 5 seasons with this group and I am excited to see the place it goes from right here.”
Drafted forty eighth general within the second spherical in 2019, Mann is coveted by the Clippers as a homegrown prospect who has developed right into a useful starter able to enjoying and defending a number of positions.
After George’s departure in free company, the Clippers wished to get youthful and lean extra on aggressive and defensive-minded gamers comparable to Mann and Derrick Jones Jr.
The Clippers nonetheless might look to be opportunistic on the commerce market down the highway. Mann’s deal is straight away eligible to be traded, sources instructed ESPN’s Tim Bontemps.
Mann’s extension with the Clippers was first reported by The Athletic.