{"id":593070,"date":"2026-02-09T19:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/593070\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T19:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:04:31","slug":"clippers-received-multiple-trade-inquiries-for-kawhi-leonard-at-trade-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/593070\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers Received Multiple Trade Inquiries For Kawhi Leonard At Trade Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Clippers received multiple trade inquiries for <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/l\/leonaka01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=dallashoopsjournal.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-09_bbr\">Kawhi Leonard<\/a> at the NBA trade deadline, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/marcstein.substack.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Stein of The Stein Line<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The Clippers traded <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hardeja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=dallashoopsjournal.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-09_bbr\">James Harden<\/a> to the Cleveland Cavaliers and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/z\/zubaciv01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=dallashoopsjournal.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-09_bbr\">Ivica Zubac<\/a> to the Indiana Pacers but decided to keep Leonard. <\/p>\n<p>Teams are expected to pursue Leonard again this offseason. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeague sources tell\u00a0The Stein Line that the LA Clippers were hit with multiple trade inquiries for Kawhi Leonard in the final hour before last Thursday\u2019s\u00a03 PM ET trade deadline sounded after it became known leaguewide that the Clippers had agreed to send Ivica Zubac to Indiana,\u201d Stein wrote. \u201cLeonard has only one more season left on his current contract at $50.3 million before the 34-year-old \u2014 who has been playing some of the best basketball of his career this season \u2014 becomes a free agent.\u00a0The expectation here is that teams will certainly be trying again to trade for Leonard in June.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leonard turns 35 in June. The two-time Finals MVP will make $50.3 million next season in the final year of his contract. <\/p>\n<p>The Clippers signed Leonard in the offseason of 2019. Leonard\u2019s stint with LAC has been disappointing, as the franchise hasn\u2019t reached the NBA Finals and Leonard hasn\u2019t been able to stay healthy. The NBA legend was also in the news last offseason for the wrong reasons. <\/p>\n<p>A company called Aspiration allegedly paid Leonard $48 million for a \u201cno-show job\u201d intended to circumvent the NBA salary cap. Clippers owner Steve Ballmer invested $10 million in Aspiration in March 2023. The billionaire had invested $50 million in Aspiration 18 months prior.<\/p>\n<p>Ballmer introduced Aspiration to Leonard in November 2021, three months after the Clippers had agreed to a four-year, $173 million extension with Leonard. Two months earlier, in September 2021, the Clippers announced a lucrative $300 million partnership with Aspiration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dallashoopsjournal.com\/p\/category\/nba\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Latest NBA News &amp; Rumors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Clippers received multiple trade inquiries for Kawhi Leonard at the NBA trade deadline, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,559,529,4034,192,4032,251,135,4033,4031,6,3101,6050],"class_list":{"0":"post-593070","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-kawhi-leonard","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","19":"tag-nba-news","20":"tag-nba-rumors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116042233654279866","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593070","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=593070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}