The Los Angeles Clippers today exercised the club?s fourth-year contract option on guard Eric Gordon and the third-year contract option on forward Blake Griffin.

Gordon, originally selected by the Clippers as the seventh overall pick in the 2008 NBA Draft, begins his third NBA season and is now signed through the 2011-12 campaign. Under the NBA?s Collective Bargaining Agreement, the Clippers had the right to exercise these contract options.