​Bradley Beal has agreed to atwo-year, $32 million contract withthe Los Angeles Clippers, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania — a familiar home for the three-time All-Star as he returns to the court after missing nearly all of last season following surgery to repair a fractured hip.Beal, 32, has averaged 21.4 points, 4.0 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 1.1 steals in 34.3 minutes per game in his career. Fun fact: He is one of just 64 players in NBA history to average 20-4-4 with at least 500 games played — and one of just 34 to do it with a career true shooting percentage (which factors in 2-point, 3-point and free-throw accuracy) north of .560.The 14-year veteran was something of a surprise addition to the open market, after he declined the $5.6 million player option he held for the 2025-26 season. Beal had inked a two-year, $11 million contract with the Clippers last summer after agreeing to terms with the Phoenix Suns on a buyout of the final two years of the $251 million extension he’d signed with the Washington Wizards in the summer of 2022.That buyout — which saw the Suns waive-and-stretch $97 million worth of salary, putting a dead-cap hit of $19.4 million on their books through 2030 — marked the end of the infamous no-trade clause that Beal used to steer himself to Phoenix when he left D.C., that caused so much consternation as the Suns tried to find an off-ramp when the hoped-for Beal/Devin Booker/Kevin Durant big three didn’t pan out, and that led to a pact inked by a former All-NBA selection being widely referred to as the worst contract in the entire league.The hope, when Beal agreed to that buyout and took a massive pay cut to join the Clippers, was that he’d be able to rehabilitate his image by replicating his Phoenix production — 17 points, 3.3 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.1 steals in 32.1 minutes per game on 50/39/80 shooting splits — at a significantly lower price point alongside Kawhi Leonard and James Harden on a Clippers team that entered last season with designs on contending for a title. Those best-laid plans were almost immediately scuttled, though.Beal opened the season on a minutes restriction to manage knee inflammation. He missed time early in the season with lower back soreness and a left knee injury, and struggled when he was on the court, shooting just 38% on 2-pointers while looking like a target defensively. And then, in the second quarter of his first game against the Suns since leaving Phoenix, he suffered the hip injury that would end his season before it ever really got started.”This is a very, very fluky injury,” Clippers president of basketball operations Lawrence Frank said at the time. “The surgeon said it’s almost like the equivalent of if you were in, like, a car accident. It’s an atypical kind of basketball injury. It’s more of an acute trauma-type injury.”The hope now, after surgical repair and many months of rehabilitation, is that Beal can once again approximate the sort of smooth-scoring three-leve