{"id":13213,"date":"2025-07-21T15:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13213\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:35:08","slug":"report-chris-paul-to-sign-with-clippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13213\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Chris Paul to sign with Clippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drafted fourth in the 2005 NBA draft, Paul begins his 21st season back in Los Angeles alongside veterans Kawhi Leonard, James Harden and recently acquired Bradley Beal.<\/p>\n<p>The future Hall of Famer played some of his best seasons during his time with the Clippers from 2011-17. Paul was named an all-star in five consecutive seasons and made all-defence first team six times.<\/p>\n<p>He averaged 8.8 points, 7.4 assists and 1.3 steals in his lone season with the San Antonio Spurs last year.<\/p>\n<p>Paul, 40, is the second-oldest active player in the NBA, trailing Lebron James (40) by only 127 days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite his age, Paul turned back the clock last season in San Antonio, playing in all 82 regular-season games for the second time in his career. He last accomplished the feat in 2014-15.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Paul also became the first player in NBA history to start all 82 games in their 20th season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drafted fourth in the 2005 NBA draft, Paul begins his 21st season back in Los Angeles alongside veterans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-13213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}