NBA: Bradley Beal Signs Two-Year Deal With Los Angeles Clippers After Phoenix Suns Buyout

Bradley Beal has found a new home.

Beal agreed to a buyout on the two years remaining on his contract with the Phoenix Suns, and intends to join the Los Angeles Clippers on a two-year, $11million deal.

The contract, which was reported by Shams Charania of ESPN on Wednesday, includes a player option for the 2026-27 NBA season, which would make Beal one of next summer's top free agent targets.

Beal is expected to give back $13.9million of the $110million he's still owed from the Suns.

Beal, 32, will likely slide into the Clippers' starting lineup, alongside James Harden and Kawhi Leonard.

Beal arrived in Phoenix prior to the 2023-24 season with high expectations for a Suns team that had made three straight Western Conference semi-finals, but the team didn't find success.

The Suns were swept out of the first round of last season's play-offs by the Minnesota Timberwolves and missed the post-season entirely this past season while posting a 36-46 record.

Beal was moved out of the starting lineup in January, and finished the season with averages of 17.0 points, 3.7 assists and 3.3 rebounds in 53 games. His scoring average was his lowest since 2014-15, when he averaged 15.3 points for the Washington Wizards in his third professional season.

The Wizards selected Beal third overall in the 2012 draft, and he spent his first 11 seasons playing for the NBA team in the United States capital.

In 2019-20, he averaged a career-best 30.5 points - second only in the league that season to Harden's average of 34.3 points.

Beal has career averages of 21.5 points, 4.3 assists and 4.1 rebounds and is a 37.6 per cent shooter from 3-point range.