In the aftermath of the Los Angeles Clippers trading Chris Paul to the Houston Rockets in exchange for Patrick Beverley, Lou Williams, Sam Dekker and a 2018 top-three-protected first-round draft pick, ESPN’s Brian Windhorst predicts that elite marksman J.J. Redick is as good as gone.
J.J. Redick is walking, he is not going to be back. That was the worst-kept secret in the NBA for the last couple of months. They didn’t have a material way to replace J.J. Redick. So the difficulty here was the Clippers weren’t even able to sell a feasible plan to Chris Paul to change his mind, so the fact that he is now gone and no longer a drawing card, that makes the situation all the more difficult.
With Paul departing, and Redick (and probably Blake Griffin) likely to follow, the “Lob City” core has been broken up. It’s the end of an era. Now it’ll just be DeAndre Jordan on a bad team.
Redick has come to the end of his four-year contract worth north of $27 million.
One of the best outside shooters in the NBA, Redick should have many suitors in free agency. He’s by no means a star, but he’s a very good role player who can come off screens to shoot three-pointers, and is a solid defender.
Last season, Redick shot 42.9 percent from three-point range. In 2015-16, he shot 47.5 percent, the 27th-best single-season mark in NBA history.
