2025–26 Los Angeles Clippers season

The 2025–26 Los Angeles Clippers season is the 56th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA), their 48th season in Southern California, and their second season in Inglewood.

During the offseason, the Clippers made major changes to their roster, acquiring several All-Star veterans such as Brook Lopez, Bradley Beal, and reuniting with Chris Paul in his 21st and final season in the league, while retaining others such as James Harden, Kawhi Leonard and Nicolas Batum. These additions resulted in the Clippers roster having an average age of 33.2 years, the oldest team in NBA history.^[1] Guard and forward Norman Powell, who was on the verge of becoming an All-Star last season, was traded to the Miami Heat for Jazz forward John Collins to address the team's front court issues.^[2] The promising off-season turned sour, when on September 2025, podcaster Pablo S. Torre reported of a potential salary cap circumvention surrounding Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and the now-bankrupt environmental company Aspiration paying Leonard unethically, which prompted a league investigation that would last throughout the season.^[3][4]

Despite expectations of being a "dark horse" playoff contender in the Western Conference,^[5] the Clippers quickly floundered during the season as front office mismanagement, injuries, and poor play from several key players crippled their competency.^[6] With a loss to the Utah Jazz on opening night, the Clippers went 5–16 in their first 21 games, the second-worst in their conference behind the New Orleans Pelicans,^[7] coinciding with a 2–13 record in November which was regarded as the worst month in their franchise history.^[8] Beal underperformed during the six of 10 games he appeared in before suffering a fractured hip on November 8 that was deemed season-ending.^[9] Starter Derrick Jones Jr. was ruled out for at least six weeks after a sprained MCL on November 17.^[10] Bogdan Bogdanović continued to miss significant time due to a left hip contusion,^[11] while Lopez and Paul fell almost completely out of the rotation. Collins was pushed to the starting lineup in response to the injuries, but their pair of losses to the Heat only furthered critic's concerns of his fit with the Clippers as opposed to Powell who was having a renaissance career in Miami.^[12] On December 3, Paul was released by the Clippers and sent home during a road trip,^[13] a move which was controversial and criticized.^[14] After starting 6-21, the clippers suddenly exploded and have won 16 of 19 games becoming 22-24.

Round	Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	College
1	30	Yanic Konan Niederhäuser	C	Switzerland	Penn State

The Clippers entered the draft with a single first-round selection from a first-round swap with the Oklahoma City Thunder.^[15][16] The team's original second-round pick had previously been traded to the Los Angeles Lakers, who later dealt it to the Utah Jazz as part of the Luka Dončić–Anthony Davis trade.

Los Angeles Clippers roster

Players

Coaches

Pos. No. Player Height Weight DOB From G/F 33 Nicolas Batum 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) 230 lb (104 kg) 1988-12-14 France G 0 Bradley Beal  6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) 207 lb (94 kg) 1993-06-28 Florida G 7 Bogdan Bogdanović 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 225 lb (102 kg) 1992-08-18 Serbia G 12 Cam Christie 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 190 lb (86 kg) 2005-07-24 Minnesota F/C 20 John Collins 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) 226 lb (103 kg) 1997-09-23 Wake Forest G 8 Kris Dunn 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 205 lb (93 kg) 1994-03-18 Providence G 10 Darius Garland 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) 192 lb (87 kg) 2000-01-26 Vanderbilt F 23 Isaiah Jackson 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) 205 lb (93 kg) 2002-01-10 Kentucky F 5 Derrick Jones Jr. 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 210 lb (95 kg) 1997-02-15 UNLV F 2 Kawhi Leonard 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 225 lb (102 kg) 1991-06-29 San Diego State C 11 Brook Lopez 7 ft 1 in (2.16 m) 282 lb (128 kg) 1988-04-01 Stanford G 9 Bennedict Mathurin 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 210 lb (95 kg) 2002-06-19 Arizona G 22 Jordan Miller 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 194 lb (88 kg) 2000-01-23 Miami (FL) C 14 Yanic Konan Niederhäuser 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) 242 lb (110 kg) 2003-03-14 Penn State G 4 Kobe Sanders 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) 207 lb (94 kg) 2002-05-30 Nevada G 15 TyTy Washington Jr. (TW) 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 195 lb (88 kg) 2001-11-15 Kentucky

Head coach Tyronn Lue Assistant(s) Jeremy Castleberry Larry Drew Shaun Fein Dahntay Jones Jay Larranaga Brian Shaw Jeff Van Gundy Legend (DP) Unsigned draft pick (FA) Free agent (S) Suspended (GL) On assignment to G League affiliate (TW) Two-way affiliate player Injured Roster Updated: November 17, 2025

• Center Brook Lopez is the 32nd former Lakers player to play for the Clippers.
• Guard Chris Paul makes his second tour of duty with the Clippers having played for them from 2011 to 2017. After 16 games, he was released on December 3, 2025.