Clippers Make Mathurin, Miller, Sanders RFAs

According to Murray, the Clippers have also give qualifying offers to wing Jordan Miller and Kobe Sanders, who will be restricted free agents too. Both Miller and Sanders had 2026/27 team options on their contracts, so the team is declining those options and the plan is to sign both players to multiyear contracts, Murray adds (via Twitter).

Mathurin, 24, was the sixth overall pick in the 2022 draft and spent his first three-and-a-half NBA seasons with the Pacers before sent from Indiana to L.A. in the Ivica Zubac trade in February.

Playing a career-high 30.0 minutes per game in 54 total outings for an injury-plagued Pacers squad and a retooling Clippers team, Mathurin averaged 17.6 points, 5.4 rebounds, and 2.4 assists per night, but his field goal percentage (43.0%) and three-point mark (31.5%) represented career lows. He made just 17-of-82 threes (20.7%) as a Clipper.

Miller, the Clippers’ second-round pick in 2023, played sparingly during his first two NBA seasons, but he emerged as a reliable rotation player in 2025/26, averaging 10.0 PPG, 3.0 RPG, and 2.3 APG on .531/.345/.777 shooting in 60 games (22.1 MPG). He was promoted from a two-way contract to a standard deal in February.

Sanders, the 50th overall pick in 2025, had an impressive rookie year in which he averaged 7.3 PPG in 19.9 MPG with a shooting line of .466/.408/.826. Like Miller, Sanders was elevated from a two-way contract to the 15-man roster in February.

A report last week suggested that the Clippers had mulled the possibility of renouncing several free agents, including Mathurin, in order to operate as a cap-space team. It doesn’t look like that’s the plan for now, though the club does have the ability to withdraw any of these qualifying offers on or before July 13 if they haven’t been accepted by then.

Mathurin’s qualifying offer will be worth $8.77MM, while Miller’s projects to come around $2.74MM and Sanders’ will be roughly $2.39MM. The exact value of Miller’s and Sanders’ QO will depend on where the 2026/27 salary cap ends up.

Those offers will give the Clippers the right of first refusal if another team signs any of those players to an offer sheet.