{"id":570325,"date":"2026-01-30T07:44:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/570325\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T07:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:44:29","slug":"report-clippers-sign-president-frank-to-4-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/570325\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Clippers sign president Frank to 4-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Clippers president of basketball operations Lawrence Frank agreed to a four-year contract extension with the club, sources told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7002640\/2026\/01\/27\/lawrence-frank-clippers-contract-extension-president-basketball-operations\/?source=emp_shared_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Athletic&#8217;s Joe Vardon and Sam Amick<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers are also expected to extend other members of the front office, adds Vardon and Amick.<\/p>\n<p>Frank joined the organization in 2014 following coaching stops at both the collegiate and pro levels. He was an assistant on Doc Rivers&#8217; staff for two seasons before being promoted to executive vice president of basketball operations.<\/p>\n<p>Frank succeeded Rivers for his current role in August 2017, as Clippers owner Steve Ballmer wanted the latter to focus on coaching.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles has enjoyed its greatest period of success under Frank&#8217;s leadership, reaching the playoffs in six of the last eight seasons and making their first-ever Western Conference finals appearance in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Frank was voted NBA Executive of the Year in 2020 after a mammoth offseason that included signing Kawhi Leonard and acquiring Paul George.<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers have turned things around this campaign following a slow start, surging to 10th in the West after winning 15 of their past 18 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Clippers president of basketball operations Lawrence Frank agreed to a four-year contract extension with the club,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,559,4034,192,4032,251,135,4033,4031,6],"class_list":["post-570325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-clippers","tag-basketball","tag-clippers","tag-la","tag-la-clippers","tag-laclippers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesclippers","tag-nba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115982936993730967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570325","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=570325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}