The Los Angeles Clippers are sending Norman Powell to the Miami Heat in a three-team trade also involving the Utah Jazz.
ESPN’s Shams Charania was among the first to report the trade.
Per Charania, Powell is being traded to the Heat in a trade that sends Jazz forward John Collins to L.A. and the Heat’s Kevin Love and Kyle Anderson to Utah.
Utah will also receive a 2027 second round pick from the Clippers.
Powell, 32, averaged a career-high 21.8 points in 60 games for the Clips last season, all starts; he also started all seven of the team’s playoff games this past season. An NBA champion with the Toronto Raptors, he joined the team in 2022 after being traded from the Portland Trail Blazers.
Los Angeles Clippers guard Norman Powell (24) pressures Utah Jazz forward John Collins (20) during the second half of an NBA basketball game Feb. 13, 2025, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Egan)
Collins, 27, joins the Clippers from the Jazz after a two-year stint in Utah; he previously spent six seasons with the Atlanta Hawks. The Wake Forest alum averaged 19 points and eight rebounds but was limited to just 40 games because of injuries.
The Clippers have been active in this offseason, re-signing veteran forward Nico Batum to a two-year, $11.5 million deal and inking another veteran, center Brook Lopez, to a two-year deal, worth $18 million. The team also re-signed James Harden to a two-year, $81.5 million contract earlier this month. These transactions come on the heels of a first-round playoff loss to the Denver Nuggets.
In this year’s draft, the Clippers selected Yanic Konan Niederhauser from Penn State and Mohamed Diawara from the French team Cholet Basket; the latter was traded to the New York Knicks in exchange for Kobe Sanders, who was picked 50th overall by the Knicks, just one spot above Diawara.
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