{"id":569493,"date":"2026-01-29T23:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/569493\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T23:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:13:11","slug":"clippers-extend-lawrence-frank-to-four-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/569493\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers Extend Lawrence Frank to Four-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the Clippers season turnaround, the team extended their President of Basketball Operations Lawrence Frank to a four year contract<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Clippers extended President for Basketball Operations Lawrence Frank to a four-year extension, Joe Vardon and Sam Amick of <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7002640\/2026\/01\/27\/lawrence-frank-clippers-contract-extension-president-basketball-operations\/\">The Athletic reported Jan. 27<\/a>. The amount the contract is worth is not yet revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers hired Frank in 2014 as an assistant coach before they promoted to Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations on June 30, 2016, and then to President of Basketball operations Aug. 4, 2017. Frank\u2019s peers voted him the NBA Executive of the Year in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the biggest moves Frank has made during his tenure with the Clippers include signing forward Kawhi Leonard and trading for forward Paul George during the 2019 offseason, promoting then-lead Assistant Coach Tyronn Lue to head coach on Oct. 20, 2020, and trading for guard James Harden on Nov. 1, 2023.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tyronn Lue, on if he thinks Kawhi Leonard\u2019s career-high 3-point rate has helped Leonard\u2019s ability to get to the line: \u201cYeah, I think so. Being willing to take more 3s, off-the-dribble 3s, bigs are now running up to him so now he can turn the corner and get downhill.\u201d <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nof9rHmc2r\">pic.twitter.com\/Nof9rHmc2r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Justin Russo (@FlyByKnite) <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlyByKnite\/status\/2015170518908092418?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under Frank, the Clippers have made the playoffs six out of his eight years, only missing them during the 2017-18 season \u2014 Frank\u2019s first season \u2014 and the 2021-22 season, but they\u2019ve also lost in the first round the previous three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Frank\u2019s extension comes in the midst of a Clippers season turnaround, as they\u2019ve gone 16-3 in their past 19 games after starting the season 6-21. Leonard is leading the NBA scoring during this period, averaging 31.8 points per game.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">how bout them clippers?? <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/itiS4nmLkR\">pic.twitter.com\/itiS4nmLkR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oh No He Didn&#8217;t (@ohnohedidnt24) <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ohnohedidnt24\/status\/2016385413431034291?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Clippers\u2019 next game is Jan. 30 against the Denver Nuggets at the Ball Arena in Denver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center is-style-altfont has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-xs-font-size wp-elements-a392843e06eac12cec56e735f4f8219f has-lg-margin-top\" style=\"letter-spacing:1px;text-transform:uppercase\">Scroll to continue reading<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid the Clippers season turnaround, the team extended their President of Basketball Operations Lawrence Frank to a four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,559,11029,4034,192,4032,251,135,4033,4031,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-569493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-clippers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-clippers","10":"tag-intuit-dome","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-clippers","13":"tag-laclippers","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangelesclippers","18":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115980927525159380","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}