If the Clippers renounce every free agent and team option they can renounce, they have $65 million is salaries next season. That mean they could offer no more than $4 million. Any decent center can command at least twice that. And that would also mean devastating the Clips already bad bench by losing Big Baby and Austin Rivers. If the sign Pierce and invoke Stephenson's team option, they'll still have over $60 million in salary for the following season.
Mike