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Team

Los Angeles Clippers

2025-26Current

Season snapshot

Middle tier regular season results · sub contender results veteran core

LAC finished 42-40 (0.512) with 0 playoff game(s). Its governed core had 8 players and a rotation-weighted age of 31.4. The team had 0 critical/structural basketball problem(s), 1 future pick-control row(s), and 37.5% future core salary schedule coverage. This describes the planning position; it does not recommend a direction.

Record

42-40

Playoff games

Playoff wins

Core age

31.4

Primary creator

Kawhi Leonard

Current decision lanes

Transactions, injuries, rumors and staff changes are separate evidence lanes — never merged.

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TransactionSean Pedullafree agent exitAug 17, 2026Completed

Departure side derived only from the named completed/reported destination move; evidence status is preserved. Signed after an earlier Clippers waiver. Reconciled from a dated index row carrying a cited transaction source. | Exact event and roster-action lineage promoted by nba_live_gap_closure_program_v1_20260825.

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TransactionJalen Picketttwo way signingAug 12, 2026Completed

Signed from Denver to a two-way slot. Reconciled from a dated index row carrying a cited transaction source. | Exact event and roster-action lineage promoted by nba_live_gap_closure_program_v1_20260825.

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Injuries & availability

Governed medical episodes — evidence about players, separate from team decisions.

Player	Injury	Body part	Out	Returned	Severity
Cam Christie	right foot soreness	foot	Dec 18, 2025 → Dec 20, 2025	Dec 20, 2025	—
Yanic Konan Niederhauser	left knee soreness	knee	Dec 17, 2025 → Dec 20, 2025	not recorded	—
James Harden	left calf contusion	calf	Dec 14, 2025 → Dec 18, 2025

Last observed season rotation

Players with actual NBA minutes for the latest eligible season; not a complete current registration ledger.

Player	Role	Strongest functions	Minutes	On/Off	Stab. RAPM	Evidence
Kris Dunn	—	—	2,236	—	—	metrics unavailable
Kawhi Leonard	—	—	2,099	—	—

On/Off and stabilized RAPM are separate impact lanes on a per-100 scale — never combined into one grade. A dash means evidence is unavailable, not zero.

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Basketball functions

Eleven separate function readings — need, coverage and redundancy stay apart; no team score.

CreationWithheld Low Team Rotation Coverage

Withheld Low Team Rotation Coverage · led by Kawhi Leonard, then Kris Dunn

Full reading

LAC 2025-26 Creation: conclusion withheld (withheld_low_team_rotation_coverage).

Defensive event creationWithheld Low Team Rotation Coverage

Withheld Low Team Rotation Coverage · led by Kawhi Leonard, then Kris Dunn

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Shot creation

Team performance and shot-creation architecture.

LAC ranked 5 of 30 in self-created shot share (51.1%), 5 of 30 in self-created eFG, and 8 of 30 in assisted eFG. Primary creator: Kawhi Leonard. Team-level creator attribution: 65.4%. Creation profile: self creation heavy; dependency: withheld low attribution; shotmaking: two mode elite.

Self-created FGA share

51.1%

Self-created eFG

51.5%

Assisted eFG

60.2%

Kawhi Leonard share

26.5%

Contracts & cap

Selected player charges under the serving definition — not full cap legality.

SupportedTax Team Below First Apron Threshold

Selected player charges

$191.7M

Share of cap

124%

Tax line

$3.78M over

First apron

$4.27M under

Second apron

$16.1M under

LAC 2025-26 carried $191,675,539 of selected player charges (123.9% of the cap), placing it in tax to first apron on selected player charges. Its highest contracted function cost was creation at 0.0% of the cap; highest measured need was creation. Exact exception and transaction legality is withheld without team cap-hold and exception-use ledgers.

Future core salary schedule

Upcoming decisions

Governed contract events ahead — dates carry their honest quality.

Brook Lopezcontract control horizonJun 30, 2027

Brook Lopez has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2027 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.

Kris Dunncontract control horizonJun 30, 2027

Kris Dunn has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2027 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.

Derrick Jones Jr.contract control horizonJun 30, 2027

Derrick Jones Jr. has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2027 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.

Kawhi Leonardcontract control horizonJun 30, 2027

Kawhi Leonard has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2027 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.

Future assets

Draft-control coverage: provisional future pick control tradability unresolved. Partial coverage renders as partial — never as a zero-asset team.

2027 round 2Tradability not confirmed

LAC has a provisional-control row for the 2027 2-round pick as of 2026-06-30. Tradability is not confirmed.

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Organization

Basketball authority and staff context — descriptive, never a grade.

No governed authority-regime rows are knowable for this team at this as-of moment.

CoverageResolved

withheld: falseresolved team: true

Supporting relations (7)

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