NBA Insiders

Apr 29, 2026, 07:00 AM ET

There is perhaps no team in the NBA with as many questions to answer this offseason, both on the court and off, than the LA Clippers .

Trading longtime center Ivica Zubac and guard James Harden at the deadline signaled to the rest of the NBA a shift in the organization's priorities -- that the Clippers, after years of tantalizing potential and subsequent disappointment, were finally entering a rebuild. The question, then, was: Would that include 34-year-old six-time All-Star Kawhi Leonard ?

The Clippers said then -- and maintain now -- that they'd like to " win with Kawhi ," and the two-time NBA Finals MVP is eligible for an extension this summer.…