Batum announced! Return to the Clippers in the new season! The last dance of NBA career

Clippers player Nicholas Batum said in an interview: "I plan to implement the player options for next season. This is likely to be my last season, very, very likely! As for what to do after retirement, I haven't figured out yet." Batum's contract is $9.57 million for two years, and next season is a player options worth 4.9 million.

NBA's last dance next season, will Batum still play FIBA ​​games? No more fights. In the summer of 2024, the French men's basketball team won the silver medal in the Olympics. Batum said at the time: "This is my last game in the French men's basketball team. I played for 4 World Cups, 4 European Cups and 4 Olympics, and I did everything I could do!"

Batum was born on December 14, 1988 and will be at least 37 years old next season. By the end of next season, Batum's total NBA career salary will reach $210 million. Previously, a Clippers reporter revealed that Batum may give up his player option and return to the Clippers with a basic salary. Now judging from Batum's statement, he will implement the options.

The basic salary is more than 3 million US dollars. Even if Batum is willing to accept it, it can only save the team more than 1 million US dollars in space, which is not much helpful to the Clippers' signings. In this year's playoffs, Batum averaged 24.5 minutes per game, scoring 5.6 points, 3.9 rebounds, 2 assists, 0.9 steals and 1.7 blocks, and his shooting percentage was 39.4%.

annual salary is more than 4 million US dollars, and this data of Batum is already excellent enough. The Clippers lost to the Nuggets in the first round of the playoffs. Clippers President Frank said after the game: "This year's offseason, the Clippers' top priority is the player options of Harden and Batum, and follow-up arrangements will be made according to their decisions." It can be seen that the Clippers have many favors to Batum...

Before the start of the tie-break battle, Nuggets center Jokic said in an interview: "I think the Clippers G7 should let Batum start. His shooting is much better than Dunn, and Batum can defend from No. 1 to No. 5." Unfortunately, Tyron Lu did not let Batum start. In this round of series, Batum became the blocking king of both teams!

In the regular season of this season, Batum played 78 games for the Clippers, 8 of which started. He averaged 17.5 minutes per game, scored 4 points, 2.8 rebounds, 1.1 assists, 0.7 steals and 0.5 blocks, and shots from three events: 43.7%, 43.3%, 81%. Batum's 84% ​​of his shooting shots came from the outside, and his three-point shooting percentage hit a career high!

Batum was the No. 25 pick in the first round in 2008. He was first selected by the Rockets and then sent to the Trail Blazers in exchange for Joey Dorsey and Darrell Arthur. In the rookie season, Batum secured his start for the Trail Blazers, averaged 10+3+3 per game in his second season of his career, and his three-point shooting percentage was as high as 40.9%. At that time, he was a first-class scorer. In the first 10 seasons of his career, Batum averaged double-digit points per game in 8 seasons. In the summer of 2016, he renewed his contract with the Hornets for 5 years and $120 million, which became a garbage contract at the time. So far in his career, Batum has played 1,131 regular season games, averaging 10 points, 4.8 rebounds, 3.1 assists, 0.9 breaks and 0.6 shots per game, with three shooting percentages: 43.7%, 36.9%, and 83.2%.

What memories do you still have about Batum?