Los Angeles Clippers Already Terminate Contract of Rookie Guard

The Los Angeles Clippers waived rookie guard Fletcher Loyer on Tuesday, ending a training-camp stay that began as a post-draft chance to stick rather than a guaranteed path onto the roster.

The team announced the move on social media.

Loyer had signed a non-guaranteed Exhibit 10 deal last month after going undrafted out of Purdue in June, the standard late-summer contract for a specialist who needs a longer look than summer league can provide.

Clearing waivers does not close the door. Under the Exhibit 10 structure, Loyer can collect a bonus of $91,000 if he spends at least 60 days with the San Diego Clippers, Los Angeles’s G League affiliate.

The Clippers are also expected to keep his G League rights, so the waiver is less a clean break than a reassignment of the evaluation. For an undrafted shooter, that affiliate season is often the real audition.

Loyer arrived in Los Angeles with a résumé built almost entirely on the three-point line. In four seasons with the Boilermakers he made 309 shots from beyond the arc, a Purdue record, and connected at 41.1 percent for his career.

As a senior, he led the Big Ten in three-point percentage at 43.2 percent and averaged 14.1 points, 2.3 rebounds, and 2.1 assists across 39 games.

He started every one of his 149 college games, finished with 1,829 points, and was part of the Purdue team that reached the 2024 national title game.

He was a three-time honorable-mention All-Big Ten pick and sat near the bottom of ESPN’s top-100 draft board, a ranking that matched how the league tends to treat a 6-foot-4 wing whose value is concentrated in one skill.

That skill is also why the Clippers brought him in. Los Angeles has spent years hunting reliable floor spacing, and Loyer’s release, volume, and career efficiency gave him a clear case as a camp body who could stretch a defense if the rest of his game held up.

The complication was context: his father, John Loyer, is the Clippers’ director of pro scouting. The Exhibit 10 was still a merit-based, non-guaranteed deal, and Tuesday’s waiver shows it was treated that way.

Camp did not produce a two-way contract or a standard roster spot.

What remains is the usual next step for this kind of signing. If Loyer clears waivers and reports to San Diego, he will have a full G League season to show that the shooting travels against longer, quicker defenders and that he can defend well enough to stay on the floor.

The $91,000 bonus is the immediate incentive. The larger one is the possibility that a hot stretch in San Diego puts him back in front of an NBA front office, including the one that just let him go.