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PLAYA VISTA — Terance Mann, a speedy learner, picked up a invaluable portion of cognition from immoderate of the veterans he’s played alongside the archetypal 2 years successful the NBA: “Everybody’s way is different,” helium said past season. “You can’t look astatine the adjacent feline and effort to bash what helium does, effort to acceptable goals that helium sets, due to the fact that yours is going to beryllium different.”
Mann’s way – from 4 seasons astatine Florida State to the 48th wide prime successful the 2019 NBA draft, and past from 2021 playoff hero to, connected Tuesday, the antheral of the hour, signing a two-year, $22 cardinal declaration hold – mightiness not beryllium replicable.
But it surely qualifies arsenic inspirational.
“I anticipation I’m decidedly information for radical that are successful my presumption successful the future,” said Mann, a versatile, high-energy, 6-foot-5 helping who gave a motion to a three-time All-Star and three-time champion who was bypassed for overmuch of the 2012 draught until Golden State grabbed him with the 35th selection.
“Like Draymond Green,” Mann said. “Guys who got drafted aboriginal and ended up proving a batch radical wrong. So it happens. And it’s going to hap again and again and again. But yeah, I would accidental I anticipation I’m information for guys successful the future.”
Mann present is connected a afloat guaranteed contract, acceptable to gain $1.78 cardinal this season, $1.9 cardinal adjacent twelvemonth and then, according to spotrac.com, astir $10.5 cardinal successful 2023-24 and $11.4 cardinal and 2024-25, erstwhile he’ll beryllium 27 years old.
With the extension, the Clippers debar the important taxation deed they faced with a caller Mann declaration successful 2022-23, erstwhile helium apt going to beryllium a restricted escaped agent.
Last season, Mann averaged 7.0 points, 3.6 rebounds and 1.6 assists successful a reserve relation earlier establishing himself arsenic an interaction subordinate successful the postseason, erstwhile helium helped L.A. header with losing Kawhi Leonard to a genu wounded for the last 8 games of their playoff run.
Mann averaged 29 minutes and 12.8 points connected 55.7% shooting, including 44.8% from 3-point range, successful those last 8 games.
And, astir memorably, helium delivered an electrical 39-point eruption successful Game 6 of the Clippers’ second-round bid against the top-seeded Utah Jazz to unafraid the team’s archetypal league finals berth.
Before signifier Tuesday astatine the team’s grooming facility, Clippers Coach Tyronn Lue made it a constituent to enactment that Mann’s expectation-busting occurrence hasn’t travel easily.
“When you get a feline similar Terance who grinds his mode to wherever helium is astatine today, each the hard enactment helium enactment successful from being a constituent defender his archetypal twelvemonth to playing the 5 past year, making 7 3s successful a close-out game, you’re conscionable blessed for guys erstwhile they get paid, they get a accidental and accidental to play successful this league for a agelong time,” Lue said. “He decidedly deserves it.”
Lue doesn’t expect the month-by-month betterment he’s witnessed from Mann tailing off, either.
“(Assistant coach) Dahntay Jones compares him a batch to Jimmy Butler,” Lue said the four-time All-NBA selection. “Just proceed to support getting amended and support moving and being a … two-way subordinate that tin defender the hoops but besides tin people and besides marque make guys better.
“That should beryllium a feline helium should look up to, a feline helium should survey a lot, due to the fact that you cognize Jimmy Butler is 1 of the apical players successful this league close now, truthful helium has a chance.”
That benignant of survey would beryllium successful quality for Mann, whose wont of observing Leonard and Paul George impressed Doc Rivers, the erstwhile Clippers’ coach, aboriginal successful grooming campy 2 years ago.
“Terance is great,” Rivers said successful October 2019. “Even if he’s not invited to the group, helium sits and watches those two. It’s astonishing however overmuch helium wants to ticker the amended players and what they do, and past you spot him connected the tribunal by himself trying to bash it. It’s beauteous chill to watch.”
Mann – who precocious signed a multiyear declaration with the Chinese footwear institution Anta – said helium had plentifulness of reasons to privation to widen his clip with the Clippers.
“This is the squad that drafted me, truthful they believed successful maine from the beginning,” Mann said. “And past the tally we had past year, we didn’t spell wherever we wanted to go, truthful it near a bitter taste. So conscionable wanting to support that up, making heavy runs successful the playoffs, trying to get a ring, staying with these guys.
“These guys helped maine out. If it wasn’t for them … I wouldn’t beryllium present truthful conscionable being astir these guys for a longer play of time, I couldn’t crook that down.”
Appreciated Terance’s effect to @NotoriousOHM’s question astir whether helium sees himself arsenic an inspiration for different precocious draught picks. pic.twitter.com/OVKvLgGoSi
— Mirjam Swanson (@MirjamSwanson) October 12, 2021
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. @MirjamSwanson: “What are you grandest goals from here?”
Terance Mann: “I conscionable privation to triumph a championship. That’s my expansive extremity and that’s what I’m present to do.”#Clippers pic.twitter.com/B6mskE47l7
— Tomer Azarly (@TomerAzarly) October 12, 2021
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