Clippers sign former All-Star Baker

LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Clippers have signed power forward Vin Baker, the team announced Monday.

Baker has been a free agent since playing for the Houston Rockets in the 2004-2005 season, said Clippers spokesman Nick Brown. Terms of the deal were not released.

Baker, 34, has averaged 15.1 points and 7.5 rebounds in 783 career games. The four-time All-Star also was a member of the 2000 Olympic team that won a gold medal in Sydney, Australia.

Baker was originally drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks with the eighth overall pick in the 1993 draft. Clippers coach Mike Dunleavy was Baker's first NBA coach. Following Dunleavy's departure from Milwaukee, Baker was dealt to Seattle and played five seasons for the Sonics from 1997-2002.

Baker, who also has played for Boston, New York and Houston, has struggled with alcoholism in the past. He was shooting more than 50 percent for the Celtics before he was suspended -- and subsequently had his contract terminated -- for violating terms of an alcohol treatment program.