{"id":46576,"date":"2025-07-07T18:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T18:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/46576\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T18:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T18:01:09","slug":"clippers-trade-norman-powell-to-miami-heat-as-part-of-three-team-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/46576\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers trade Norman Powell to Miami Heat as part of three-team deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/clippers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clippers<\/a> have traded guard <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/clippers\/story\/2025-04-23\/clippers-guard-norman-powell-trusts-his-work-taking-big-shots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Norman Powell<\/a> to the Miami Heat and have acquired forward John Collins from the Utah Jazz in a three-team, multiplayer deal that also includes a draft pick, according to people with knowledge of the situation not authorized to speak on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers will send a 2027 second-round pick to the Jazz and the Heat will send Kyle Anderson and Kevin Love to the Jazz as part of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>In Collins, the Clippers get some much-needed size for the frontcourt and youth.<\/p>\n<p>Though Collins, 27, played just 40 games last season for the Jazz, including 31 starts, he averaged 19.0 points and 8.2 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>A 6-foot-9, 226-pound power forward, Collins improved his outside shooting, making a career-best 39.9% of his three-pointers last season despite dealing with back and ankle injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of his eight-year career, Collins has averaged 16.0 points, 8.1 rebounds and shot 54.6%  from the field, 36.3% from three-point range and 79.2% from the free-throw line, including a career-best 84.8% last season.<\/p>\n<p>Collins opted into his player option that pays him $26.5 million next season, his last year of that deal.<\/p>\n<p>Powell, 32, was one of the Clippers\u2019 top performers last season, averaging a career-high 21.8 points per game, second-best on the team. He was in the final year of a contract that was to pay him $20.4 million next season and was seeking an extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Clippers have traded guard Norman Powell to the Miami Heat and have acquired forward John Collins from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,36178,7197,36175,24567,2961,224,5337,3120,36177,36174,36179,5996,36176,449,24566,36173,3132,11108],"class_list":{"0":"post-46576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-clipper-trade-norman-powell","11":"tag-clippers","12":"tag-collins","13":"tag-game-last-season","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-miami-heat","18":"tag-multi-player-deal","19":"tag-net-john-collins","20":"tag-next-season","21":"tag-part","22":"tag-percent","23":"tag-point","24":"tag-rebound","25":"tag-three-team-deal","26":"tag-utah-jazz","27":"tag-youth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114813264389148144","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46576","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=46576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}