The Clippers can offer Beal up to $5.3 million in salary this upcoming season. Los Angeles used most of its non-taxpayer mid-level exception to sign center Brook Lopez. The Clippers also made a trade that saw Norman Powell go to the Miami Heat and John Collins come to Los Angeles in a three-deal deal with the Utah Jazz.

That player is Bradley Beal, who has reportedly been in discussions with the Suns about a potential contract buyout after Phoenix was unable to find a trade suitor for him. If Beal is bought out, he would become an unrestricted free agent and there are expected to be many teams around the NBA with interest in signing the 32-year-old guard.

Gerald Bourguet of PHNX Sports reported that Beal's buyout is "imminent," and he's likely to have $96.9 million of the $110.8 million remaining on his contract stretched over the next five years. That would allow the Suns to avoid going over both tax aprons.