The Los Angeles Clippers have a busy offseason ahead. The Kawhi Leonard situation is still unresolved, the roster has real questions up and down, and the front office has to make some hard decisions about who fits into the next chapter of this franchise.

Some of those decisions are going to be pretty easy to make. The following are three players who likely won't be back in Clipper colors next season.

This one is pretty straightforward. Bogdanovic averaged just 7.4 points on 34 percent shooting from three this season, and the Clippers have a $16 million team option on him that they're widely expected to decline. That's a lot of money for a backup guard who couldn't shoot the ball at a game-changing clip.

Bogdanovic has had stretches in his career where he's been a valuable shooter and playmaker, but this season wasn't one of them. LA has younger, cheaper options to fill that role, and the cap flexibility they'd get from moving on is more valuable than anything Bogdanovic brings at this point in his career.

Lopez is one of the more beloved veterans in the league and he's still a useful player in the right system, but his $9.1 million team option is a real question mark for a front office that has to prioritize flexibility heading into a massive offseason.

He's 38 years old, and the Clippers are trying to figure out what their roster looks like around Kawhi and Darius Garland going forward.

A nearly $10 million commitment to a 38-year-old center, no matter how steady he's been, is hard to justify when you're trying to reshape a roster and keep your options open in free agency. Don't be surprised if he ends up elsewhere on a veteran minimum. 

Batum has been a professional's professional throughout his career, and his locker room presence and defensive versatility have kept him relevant long past when most people expected. But at 38 years old with a $5.9 million team option, he's another veteran the Clippers will likely move on from as they try to get younger. 

The minutes Batum was playing this season are minutes that need to go to more youthful and more athletic players if this organization is serious about building something sustainable. His time as a Clipper has been solid, but the math just doesn't add up for a return.

The bigger picture here is that LA is trying to create as much flexibility as possible heading into a summer where everything depends on what Kawhi decides to do. Declining these three options is the first step in giving the front office real room to maneuver. Whether they use that room wisely is the real question.