2025–26 Los Angeles Clippers season

The 2025–26 Los Angeles Clippers season is the 56th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA), their 48th season in Southern California, and their second season in Inglewood. The team had also hosted the 2026 NBA All-Star Game.

During the offseason, the Clippers made major changes to their roster, acquiring several All-Star veterans such as Brook Lopez, Bradley Beal, and reuniting with Chris Paul in his 21st and final season in the league, while retaining others such as James Harden, Kawhi Leonard and Nicolas Batum. These additions resulted in the Clippers roster having an average age of 33.2 years, the oldest team in NBA history. Guard and forward Norman Powell, who was on the verge of becoming an All-Star last season, was traded to the Miami Heat for Jazz forward John Collins to address the team's front court issues. The promising off-season turned sour, when on September 2025, podcaster Pablo S. Torre reported of a potential salary cap circumvention surrounding Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and the now-bankrupt environmental company Aspiration paying Leonard unethically, which prompted a league investigation that would last throughout the season.

Despite expectations of being a "dark horse" playoff contender in the Western Conference, the Clippers quickly floundered during the season as front office mismanagement, injuries, and poor play from several key players crippled their competency. With a loss to the Utah Jazz on opening night, the Clippers went 5–16 in their first 21 games, the second-worst in their conference behind the New Orleans Pelicans, coinciding with a 2–13 record in November which was regarded as the worst month in their franchise history. Beal underperformed during the six of 10 games he appeared in before suffering a fractured hip on November 8 that was deemed season-ending. Starter Derrick Jones Jr. was ruled out for at least six weeks after a sprained MCL on November 17. Bogdan Bogdanović continued to miss significant time due to a left hip contusion, while Lopez and Paul fell almost completely out of the rotation. Collins was pushed to the starting lineup in response to the injuries, but their pair of losses to the Heat only furthered critic's concerns of his fit with the Clippers as opposed to Powell who was having a renaissance career in Miami. On December 3, Chris Paul was sent home during a road trip, a move which was controversial and criticized. After starting 6–21, the Clippers suddenly exploded and won 16 of 19 games, having a record of 22–24. On March 11th, the Clippers become the first team in NBA History to go above .500 after starting 15 games below .500.