Clips exercise option on Blake Griffin

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  1. truebluefan

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    The Los Angeles Clippers on Tuesday formally extended a $1,091,100 qualifying offer to restricted free agent center DeAndre Jordan and picked up the fourth-year option on power forward Blake Griffin and third-year options on guard Eric Bledsoe and forward Al-Farouq Aminu.

    While all of these moves were expected and somewhat perfunctory, extending the qualifying offer to Jordan formally begins what could be an intriguing and revealing process for the Clippers, who now have the right to match any offer sheet the athletic big man signs with another team.

    Clippers general manager Neil Olshey stopped short of guaranteeing the team would match any offer for Jordan, but sounded confident in the franchise's resolve to do so.

    Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/news/story?id=6661870
     
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    Thats the right move for this franchise. Hopefully he stays healthy and can turn this team into a solid playoff contender
     

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