Live Bar, June 16 according to Eric Pincus, a reporter from bleachers, multiple sources revealed that Clippers hoped to renew their contracts with a preferential price of 3.8 million dollars a year.
Pincus said that in this way, the Clippers could have the right of weishao early bird next summer and provide Batum and Reggie with a larger contract.
Batum signed the Clippers with the basic salary of a year veteran in 2020, signed a two-year contract with the Clippers in 2021, and sophomore options. In 2022, he jumped out of the contract and signed a two-year 22 million-dollar contract with the Clippers.
Early bird right:
If a player plays for a team for two consecutive seasons, then the team has the early bird right of the player and can break through the limit of salary cap to renew the contract with him, this is the basic content of early bird right. When renewing the contract, both parties can sign a copy for 2 to 4 years, starting at 175% of the player’s previous year’s salary (but not more than the top salary) or 105 percent of the average salary of the alliance in the previous year, the salary increase can reach 8 percent of the new contract.