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Nicolas Batum Rumors
Nicolas Batum: Let’s run it back #ClipperNation! The Batum Battalion keeps rolling 🫡
Bobbyy Marks: Largest waive and stretch in NBA history Nearly triples the Nicolas Batum waiver by Charlotte years ago
Nicolas Batum to re-sign with Clippers
Shams Charania: Free agent forward Nicolas Batum intends to sign a two-year, $11.5 million deal to return to the Los Angeles Clippers, sources tell ESPN. Deal includes a team option as well as a trade kicker. Batum's agent, Bouna Ndiaye of Comsport, negotiated the contract for the reunion.
Law Murray: Nicolas Batum contract history since 2020: - Dec. 2020, 1y-min. LAC (after bought out of final year of 5y-$120m with CHA) - Aug. 2021, 2yPO LAC - Jul. 2022, opt out, new 2y $22m LAC (traded to PHI in final year of deal) - Jul. 2024, 2yPO LAC - Jul. 2025, TBD (opt out)
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Nicolas Batum declines player option, will hit free agency
Shams Charania: Los Angeles Clippers forward Nicolas Batum is declining his $4.9 million player option for the 2025-26 season to become a free agent, sources tell ESPN. There's mutual interest between the NBA veteran and the Clippers in a new deal together. pic.x.com/mDyfBTzIGp
Nicolas Batum: I always say that Ty Lue saved my career. He did. Like, when I got waived—when Woj announced on Twitter—and I found out that way. Interviewer: Did you really? There was no heads-up? It was just— Nicolas Batum: I was in France, and that’s a true story. I was in France—so time difference—I was cleaning my living room and my son’s toys before putting him to bed, and my phone popped off. “V. Nick Batum got waived.” That’s how I found out. Interviewer: You’re like, “Nice business.” Nicolas Batum: Thank you. So now it’s funny, because I’m like, “Okay, I’m going to retire.” I pretty much thought I was done. I was like, who’s going to want me though, from that, at that time? And my phone started ringing—and yes, of course, the team that got the most interested in me was the Clippers. I got like everybody on the phone: Kawhi, PG, Ty Lue, Lawrence [Frank], Frank, Steve Ballmer—everybody. So I was like, “Why not?” Because I think our stories matched at that time: the bubble stuff, my season. So I was like, maybe get together.
Clippers expect Nicolas Batum to return, but Ben Simmons return not certain
Current backup center Drew Eubanks has a $4.75 million non-guaranteed contract for the 2024-25 season and is not expected to return. Eubanks could either be included as a salary filler in a trade or waived by the Clippers. The returns of Amir Coffey, depending on his free agent market, and Ben Simmons are also not certain. It’s worth noting the Clippers expect 36-year-old French forward Nicolas Batum to return next season. Batum has a $4.9 million player option for next season.
Nicolas Batum likely to retire after the 2025-26 season
Nicolas Batum, an NBA veteran forward and former longtime French national team captain, may embark on the final season of his career in 2025-26. “There’s a very, very good chance that the next season will be my last,” Batum said in an interview with BeinSports. Batum is expected to return to the Los Angeles Clippers next season and complete the two-year contract he signed with the team during the 2024 free agency.
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Nicolas Batum also has a player option for next season. He shot 43% from 3-point range in 78 regular-season games. "Yes, 1,000 percent, we hope that Nico comes back," Frank said.
Nicholas Batum: Legend of the Game. Thank you Pop 🙏🏽
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