FILE – Los Angeles Clippers’ Ivica Zubac plays during an NBA basketball game, Wednesday, March 27, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
LOS ANGELES — Ivica Zubac and the Los Angeles Clippers have agreed to a three-year, $58.6 million contract extension that will keep him with the team through the 2027-28 NBA season, agent Jeff Schwartz of Excel said Saturday.
Zubac averaged 11.7 points and a career-high 9.2 rebounds last season, as the 27-year-old center shot 65 percent from the field during the regular season. He averaged 16.2 points in the Clippers’ loss to Dallas in six games of the Western Conference playoffs.
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He had one year and $11.7 million remaining on his current contract. Zubac, who was traded from the Lakers in February 2019, is the Clippers’ longest-tenured player as the team prepares to play its first season in its new arena in Inglewood.
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