- Editor’s Note: For the upcoming Sports Illustrated 2026–27 basketball preview magazine that will hit newsstands in October, SI spoke to anonymous scouts around the NBA about all 30 teams.
It’s been quite an eventful September for the Clippers, you could say. But with the NBA’s punishment for cap circumvention handed down and the Kawhi Leonard trade executed, the hubbub will finally die down—giving us all the opportunity to look forward to what this season will look like in Los Angeles as the franchise moves forward from another scandal.
