{"id":28568,"date":"2025-07-01T01:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T01:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/28568\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T01:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T01:16:12","slug":"clippers-agree-to-two-year-deal-with-brook-lopez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/28568\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers agree to two-year deal with Brook Lopez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/clippers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Clippers<\/a> got the backup center they have yearned for when <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lopezbr01.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brook Lopez<\/a> agreed to a two-year, $18-million deal, according to people not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez, who spent the last seven seasons with Milwaukee, averaged 13 points, 5.0 rebounds and shot 37.3% from three-point range.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez will be the backup to starting center <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/z\/zubaciv01.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ivica Zubac<\/a>, and he gives the Clippers depth and experience at the position.<\/p>\n<p>The 7-1 Lopez still is a good rim-protector, averaging 1.9 blocks per game last season. Lopez has won an NBA championship with the Bucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Clippers got the backup center they have yearned for when Brook Lopez agreed to a two-year, $18-million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[22723,7611,20540,1582,276,24570,7197,3853,24568,24567,2961,224,2444,5337,24569,6375,449,24566,24565,24564],"class_list":{"0":"post-28568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-backup-center","9":"tag-block","10":"tag-brook-lopez","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-center-ivica-zubac","14":"tag-clippers","15":"tag-deal","16":"tag-experience","17":"tag-game-last-season","18":"tag-la","19":"tag-los-angeles","20":"tag-los-angeles-times","21":"tag-losangeles","22":"tag-matter","23":"tag-milwaukee","24":"tag-point","25":"tag-rebound","26":"tag-three-point-range","27":"tag-two-year"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}