Mann follows Zubac's lead, inks three-year extension with Clippers
The former second-round pick will be a Clipper through 2028.
LA Clippers swingman Terance Mann has agreed to a three-year, $47 million contract extension with the franchise that drafted him, according to reporting by The Athletic’s Shams Charania.
The extension ties Mann with the Clippers through the end of the 2027-28 season.
“[Talks] are ongoing, we continue to have them,” Clippers president of basketball operations Lawrence Frank told gathered media on Tuesday. “We are hopeful that we can find a deal.”
That deal has been found.
“We’d like Terance [Mann] to be here and to be here for a long time,” Frank said Tuesday. “Yet, we’re also respectful of the business side of it that has to make sense for both sides. We have really, really cordial dialogue and continue to have them. I guess time will tell, but we hope we can get a deal done.”
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Mann averaged 8.8 points, 3.4 rebounds, and 1.6 assists across 75 games for the Clippers last season, shooting 51.5% overall and 34.8% on 3s. However, Mann’s season is the tale of two distinct parts.
The 27-year-old missed the first six games of the season due to an ankle injury after winning the fifth starting spot in training camp. Mann struggled with his shot after returning, connecting on only 19.5% of his 3-point attempts through the end of 2023.
The beginning of the new year yielded better results as the versatile swingman cashed home 44.1% of his 3s once the calendar flipped to 2024. The Clippers are hoping that player— the one who averaged 9.9 points on 58% shooting overall over the final 50 games of the season—is the one who shows up over the next few seasons.
Zubac, Clippers agree to three-year extension through 2028
The LA Clippers and Ivica Zubac have agreed on a three-year, $58.6 million extension, as first reported by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Friday evening.
Mann is a success story for the Clippers as the franchise selected him with the 48th overall pick in 2019.
The Florida State alum catapulted himself into the rotation early in his career and has remained a mainstay for the franchise in a variety of lineups, frequently requiring the multitalented Mann to change roles on a week-by-week, game-by-game, or even quarter-by-quarter basis. Mann’s malleability on both ends of the floor has allowed him to remain a valuable entity within the franchise.
Mann’s extension does not preclude him from being trade-eligible this upcoming season, as outlined by ESPN’s Bobby Marks. But it does shore up a rotation for the Clippers that now features several players locked into very valuable and team-friendly contracts.
Under the new constraints of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, teams have to be wary of the penalties that could arise should they find themselves over the first or, more importantly, second apron. As such, Mann’s deal becomes a major boon to roster-building efforts that the Clippers will undergo both now and in the future.
Both Mann and Ivica Zubac’s respective extensions kick in at the beginning of the 2025-26 season. In the projected cap climate of that year, the duo is estimated to earn a combined $33.6 million. But the money itself is not the key talking point for the extensions. Rather, the percentages are what will matter for the Clippers, and all teams, going forward.
Mann is slated to occupy 10% of the Clippers’ projected salary cap in 2025-26 while Zubac clocks in at 11.7%. Add in Derrick Jones Jr.’s flat $10 million salary for that season, which comes in at a meager 6.5% of the cap, and you have three projected starters for the Clippers taking up a grand total of 28.2% of the available salary cap. Factor in Kris Dunn’s $5.4 million for that season, as well, and key rotation players see their cap percentage jump to 31.7%, a figure most teams would be willing to live with.
The news of Friday’s extension is a nice birthday present for Mann, who turns 28 on Oct. 18.
As the Clippers get set to open their new Intuit Dome arena this season, signing their two longest-tenured players to extensions will be seen as a positive step for the franchise after an offseason in which they opted to let Paul George depart in free agency by not offering him the contract he was looking for.
Clippers coach Tyronn Lue said on Tuesday that there will likely be an open competition for starting spots coming into training camp.
“I think having [the guards] compete and have a true competition and whoever wins it out will be starting [alongside James Harden],” Lue said.
With a new deal firmly in his pocket, Mann will be motivated to keep that spot that he so rightly earned last season.