The Clippers are bringing back Jordan Miller on a three-year deal, the biggest payday of his career so far.
Jordan Miller is staying in Los Angeles.
The Clippers agreed to a new three-year, $15.3 million contract with the restricted free agent on Friday, per Shams Charania of ESPN.
Only the first season is guaranteed, per Law Murray of The Athletic, but it is still the biggest contract of Miller's career, arriving three years after the Clippers took him with the 48th pick in the 2023 draft out of Miami.
The signing says plenty about where the franchise is headed.
Los Angeles finished last season 42-40, landed ninth in the Western Conference, and watched its year end with a play-in loss to Golden State.
The front office responded by tearing things down and getting younger, and Miller fits that plan almost perfectly.
A Career Year Earned It
Miller turned in the best season of his life in 2025-26, setting career highs with 10.0 points, 3.0 rebounds, and 2.3 assists per game across 60 appearances while shooting 53.1 percent from the field.
He missed most of the season's first two months with hamstring and back injuries, then worked his way into the rotation and refused to give the spot back.
Once January arrived, he became one of the few Clippers who could put real pressure on the rim off the bench, and his scoring helped drag a miserable start back toward respectability.
The 26-year-old wing did all of that on a minimum contract, which is a big part of why this new deal feels earned rather than handed out.
The Long Road to Guaranteed Money
Nothing about Miller's path was smooth.
He spent his first two seasons buried on two-way deals, appearing in just 45 games and averaging about 10 minutes a night.
The Clippers handed him a standard contract in March 2025, waived him four months later, then brought him back on another two-way.
He finally cracked the rotation in December and played well enough that the team converted him to a standard deal in February, though that contract came with a team option instead of real security.
Los Angeles declined the option in June and extended him a qualifying offer, which made him restricted and set up Friday's agreement.
After three years of proving himself on short money, Miller finally has a guaranteed salary in hand, even if the last two years leave him something to play for.
Where the Cap Stands
The deal averages a little over $5 million per season, a modest number for a rotation wing.
Moving Kawhi Leonard's $50.3 million salary to Toronto handed the front office a much cleaner cap sheet, and declining options on Bogdan Bogdanovic and Nicolas Batum cleared roughly $22 million more.
Los Angeles also re-signed Kobe Sanders to a four-year, $11.2 million deal this week after the rookie averaged 7.3 points across 68 games.
Brian Windhorst of ESPN believes the Clippers can still be a power player in free agency, and cheap contracts for Miller and Sanders are a big reason why.
The young core around Darius Garland, Brandon Ingram, and Keaton Wagler keeps growing, and Miller finally gets to grow with it.
