The Clippers have some flexibility and real needs heading into a pivotal summer.
The Los Angeles Clippers went 42-40 this season and still ended up watching the playoffs from the couch after the Golden State Warriors knocked them out in the play-in tournament.
Frustrating is an understatement for a team that clawed its way back from a 6-21 start and looked like a completely different group over the final four months.
Kawhi Leonard played 65 games, posted a career-high 27.9 points per game, and Darius Garland averaged 18.8 points with 6.7 assists after arriving from Cleveland at the trade deadline.
The talent showed up but the roster depth didn't.
Now comes the interesting part.
By declining team options on Bogdan Bogdanovic, Brook Lopez, and Nicolas Batum, the front office could open up roughly $70 million in cap space with just seven players under contract for next season.
Lawrence Frank has already been vocal about where the team fell short, pointing to rebounding, secondary playmaking, and shooting as the areas that need attention.
Coby White
White is the name that keeps coming up in Clippers offseason conversations, and for good reason.
The 26-year-old guard was traded from Chicago to Charlotte at the February deadline and averaged 17.4 points, 4.0 assists, and 3.4 rebounds across 50 combined games this season while shooting 36.2 percent from three.
He can run a pick-and-roll, he can get hot from deep in a hurry, and he brings exactly the secondary creation that this roster was missing all year long once James Harden got shipped out.
White is an unrestricted free agent, and while Charlotte would like to keep him, the Clippers can offer a role next to Garland and Leonard that few teams can match.
Mitchell Robinson
After trading Ivica Zubac at the deadline, the Clippers ranked second to last in the league in rebounding, and that problem isn't going to fix itself with the same personnel.
Robinson spent his entire career with the New York Knicks and is now an unrestricted free agent coming off a season where he averaged 7.8 points, 7.8 rebounds, and posted a 20.3 PER.
He protects the rim, finishes lobs, and crashes the glass on both ends.
At 28, he still has good years left in him as a starting five.
Frank talked about needing to address the rebounding issue, and Robinson answers that question immediately.
Collin Sexton
Sexton bounced from Charlotte to Chicago at the February trade deadline and finished the year averaging 15.4 points and 3.3 assists across both stops.
At 27, he still has scoring pop and the ability to create his own shot off the bench, giving the Clippers a legitimate secondary ball handler behind Garland.
He probably won't command a massive deal either, which matters when the goal is adding talent without killing future flexibility.
An under-the-radar move like Sexton could end up being the one that changes the bench rotation entirely.