According to the latest report from Woj and Shams at the same time, Bridges has agreed to sign a three-year, $75 million contract with the Hornets, which is a fully guaranteed contract that does not include any options, and the team has cut four players in a row, while the Clippers, who have been interested in him, have missed out on the striker.
Bridges had the best season of his career in 2021-22 but missed all of the games in 2022-23 due to domestic violence. In the 2023-24 season, he played 67 games for the Hornets, averaging 21 points, 7.3 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game, and his form was not affected at all by missing a season, but played better than in the 2021-22 season.
The Hornets re-signed Bridges and made a trade, and then cut four people, and the team got Spurs Graham through the trade, and then cut them, along with Bertans, Burkusevski, and McGovens.
Graham averaged 5 points, 1.6 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game with the Spurs in 2023-24, Bertans averaged 6.7 points and 1.4 rebounds per game in 2023-24, Berkusevski averaged 5.2 points and 3.2 rebounds per game in 2023-24, and McGovings averaged 5.1 points, 1.7 rebounds and 0.9 assists per game in 2023-24.
For the Hornets, their roster for the new season has not changed much, the four cuts are not painful for the team, and it is still unknown whether Green, who was acquired from the Mavericks through a trade, will be able to enter the rotation. In the new season, the Hornets' starting lineup is likely to be Ball + Mann + Miller + Bridges + Mark Williams, this lineup, as long as the team's Ball can stay healthy, is still very competitive, at least in the East, they still have hope of hitting the playoffs.
The Hornets and Bridges renewed their contract, and the Clippers, who have always wanted to get him, will lose the most important reinforcement in the offseason, however, some media recently revealed that the Clippers failed to get Bridges, one of the biggest reasons is that Bridges' agent is Rich Paul, and his relationship with James is well known, and it is likely that he mediated from it so that the Clippers failed to get Bridges, and did not want the Clippers to be in Los Angeles with the Lakers to be improved.
The Clippers lost George in the offseason and brought in Jones of the Mavericks, although Jones's defense is a notch stronger than George's, but there is still a gap in overall strength, however, it is worth mentioning that in the 2023-24 playoffs, Jones's defensive George, George played a disappointing game, although Jones is more functional for the Clippers, but whether the team can play well in the competitive West, it's hard to say.
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