Brand, Maggette could opt out at season's end

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Big questions await the Clippers heading into the season. Potentially bigger ones loom at its conclusion.

While the team deals with injuries to start the year, key players can become free agents at season's end.

Elton Brand and Corey Maggette can opt out of their contracts, while several others, including Sam Cassell and Quinton Ross, are playing in the last year of their contracts.

The situation is similar to four summers ago when six Clippers were free agents, including Brand, Maggette, Lamar Odom and Andre Miller.

Brand signed an $82.2-million, six-year offer sheet with the Miami Heat and Maggette signed a six-year, $42-million offer sheet with the Utah Jazz, while Odom signed an offer sheet for six years and $63 million with the Heat and Miller signed one with the Denver Nuggets for six years and $51 million