Level guard Bradley Beal’s tumultuous first season with the Los Angeles Clippers is coming to an early finish.
It’s, alas, painful enterprise as typical for Los Angeles Clippers level guard Bradley Beal.
Per Shams Charania of ESPN, the three-time All-Star has been recognized with a hip fracture that can require season-ending surgical procedure. It’s the most recent medical setback within the profession of Beal, who has not performed greater than 60 video games in a season since 2018-19.
“We met with quite a few docs and specialists across the nation in collaboration with your complete Clippers medical employees over the previous couple of days,” Beal’s agent Mark Bartelstein mentioned in Charania’s report. “[We] got here to the choice unanimously that the surgical procedure will enable Brad to have a full and full restoration.”
Simply in: Los Angeles Clippers guard Bradley Beal has a fracture in his hip and can bear season-ending surgical procedure, sources inform ESPN. pic.twitter.com/XrwyOTUdOo
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) November 12, 2025
Thus ends Beal’s first season with the reeling Clippers (3-7) after signing a two-year, $10.9 million contract in SoCal over the offseason. The latter season on that deal is a participant choice, which suggests his Clipper profession could possibly be over earlier than it ever actually acquired began.
In search of to reclaim the narrative of his professional profession after a brutal ending in Phoenix, Beal was averaging 8.2 factors and 1.7 assists in simply over 20 minutes per sport for Los Angeles, by far the bottom numbers of his profession throughout the board. The third total choose of the 2012 draft was coming off a disappointing two-year tour with the Phoenix Suns, one which started with a hefty commerce together with his authentic employers, the Washington Wizards, to amass his companies to work alongside Devin Booker and Kevin Durant.
Bradley Beal: A Profession Outlined by Accidents and Inconsistency
Accidents and inconsistency wound up defining Beal’s time within the desert, which hit its nadir when he was faraway from the beginning lineup for Ryan Dunn. Phoenix purchased his contract out after, permitting him to signal with the Clippers.
“It’s in all probability going to be a giant ‘what if?’ story eternally,” Beal mentioned of his Phoenix tenure final week, per Kellan Olson of Arizona Sports activities. “However on the finish of the day, everyone has a narrative, all the things occurs for a cause, and I’m excited with the place I’m, and I’m certain E book’s excited for his workforce, and I’m certain [current Houston Rocket Durant] is happy for his state of affairs.
“It’s what it’s. Can’t be upset about it, can’t be mad about it. As a fan, I’m certain you’re mad and upset. Internally, I’m certain we’re too. We had excessive targets and expectations, too. Chips fall the place they do typically.”
“Get wholesome. Greater than that, simply hold taking part in. It’s going to return.”
Bradley Beal on getting again his finest after a 5-point evening on 2-of-14 capturing in Clippers loss to Suns.
On having perception it’ll come round: “We wouldn’t be professionals if we couldn’t be mentally robust sufficient to… pic.twitter.com/bbuYq8QDaQ
— Duane Rankin (@DuaneRankin) November 7, 2025
Beal, in a macabre irony, performed his ultimate minutes in opposition to the Suns: he shot 2-of-14 from the sector in a loss within the Valley final Thursday, which noticed him obtain a impolite welcome again from Phoenix followers. Beal would later go away a Saturday rematch early with a hip damage, scoring 12 factors within the Clippers’ 114-103 defeat.
The struggles of Beal are the most recent hurdle the Clippers have to beat, as LA has dropped 5 in a row since a 3-2 begin, creating the second-longest energetic dropping streak within the Affiliation. Life after Beal begins on Wednesday evening after they host the Denver Nuggets at Intuit Dome (7:30 p.m. PT, FanDuel Sports activities SoCal).
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