Sources: Lue has the same opinion to five-365 days deal to show Clips

Ty Lue has agreed to a five-365 days deal to turn into the following head coach of the LA Clippers, sources suggested ESPN on Thursday.

The Clippers and Lue’s representative within the contract talks, Andy Miller, performed negotiations on a deal Thursday afternoon, sources acknowledged.

The Clippers’ search landed on Lue based upon a self assurance that his championship pedigree and playoff successes as a head coach in Cleveland, as properly as his solid skill to communicate with gamers, will resonate interior a franchise that underachieved within the 2019-2020 season.

Lue, 43, has had critical make stronger among key Clippers gamers within the search job, sources acknowledged.

Lue is replacing Doc Rivers, below whom he served as an assistant final season with the Clippers. The Clippers blew a 3-1 lead within the Western Convention semifinals, losing in seven games to the Denver Nuggets.

Within the fundamental season of Kawhi Leonard and Paul George enjoying collectively, the Clippers went 49-23 this traditional season — the fourth-simplest file in franchise history.

Chauncey Billups is expected to be a candidate to join Lue’s workers with the Clippers, sources acknowledged, even supposing he is alive to currently within the Indiana Pacers‘ gaze for a head coach.

Lue won a championship in 2016 as the Cavaliers coach, reaching the NBA Finals in three straight years. As a head coach, Lue is 128-83 total and 41-20 within the playoffs.

He won two NBA championships as a player with the Los Angeles Lakers.

The Linked Press contributed to this listing.