Sources – Powell to Warmth, Collins to Clippers in three-team commerce

The Clippers, Jazz and Heat have agreed to a commerce that sends Norman Powell to Miami, John Collins to Los Angeles, and Kevin Love, Kyle Anderson and a 2027 Clippers second-round decide to Utah, sources instructed ESPN.

Powell, 32, is coming off his finest season by which he averaged a career-high 21.8 factors and was an All-Star candidate who began all 60 video games he performed in for the primary time in his profession. Miami is trying to rebound from a tumultuous season that included the Jimmy Butler commerce to the Golden State and completed with a first-round sweep by Cleveland. Powell provides offensive firepower and was a 42% shooter from behind the arc final season. The 6-foot-4 guard is likely one of the league’s hardest-working gamers and will seamlessly match Miami’s tradition. He’s extension-eligible and is coming into the ultimate yr of his deal at $20.4 million this season.

Collins, 27, is the type of athletic large the Clippers have coveted up to now. The 6-9 ahead averaged 19 factors and eight.2 rebounds in 40 video games for the Jazz final season and can be coming into the ultimate yr of his contract price at $26.5 million due this coming season.

Each Powell and Collins had been unlikely to signal extensions with their respective groups, in keeping with sources.

Whereas Powell was one of many league’s finest sixth man in his first two-plus seasons in Los Angeles earlier than thriving as a starter final season with Kawhi Leonard out for the primary two months, the Clippers have been searching for extra cap flexibility.

Leonard has two years remaining on his contract and the Clippers’ strikes this offseason have been aligned for future flexibility. They simply agreed to a brand new two-year, $81.5 million contract with James Harden. The second yr of Harden’s deal has a participant choice and is partially assured, sources instructed ESPN. Los Angeles additionally signed heart Brook Lopez to a two-year, $18 million cope with a crew choice for the second yr of the contract.

The Clippers can use one other taking pictures guard and playmaking level guard and have the $5.3 million non-tax midlevel left to make use of.

Utah has turned Collins’ contract into an asset of a second-round decide, and it’ll additionally create a $26.6 million commerce exception. The Jazz have traded Collin Sexton and a second-round decide to Charlotte for Jusuf Nurkic and accomplished a contract buyout of guard Jordan Clarkson this offseason.

The 36-year-old Love, a five-time All-Star, averaged 5.3 factors and 4.1 rebounds in 23 video games for the Warmth final season. Anderson, 31, acquired by Miami in a commerce with the Golden State Warriors involving Butler final season, averaged 6.7 factors in 25 video games after the commerce.