{"id":18352,"date":"2025-07-23T16:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/18352\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T16:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:18:12","slug":"bradley-beal-agrees-to-give-no-3-jersey-to-new-clippers-teammate-chris-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/18352\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradley Beal agrees to give No. 3 jersey to new Clippers teammate Chris Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chris Paul and Bradley Beal were both acquired by the Clippers this summer.<\/p>\n

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LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Chris Paul will be wearing his No. 3 jersey in his return to the LA Clippers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Newly acquired Bradley Beal<\/a> has agreed to give Paul the number that Beal has worn his entire NBA career, according to Lawrence Frank, president of basketball operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce Brad heard it\u2019s a possibility Chris was coming he said, \u2018I want to give him my number,\u2019 and I don\u2019t even think Chris knows this yet,\u201d Frank said Tuesday on a teleconference call. \u201cIt\u2019s awesome that Brad made such a great gesture like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frank said Beal understands what the jersey number means to Paul, who is widely known by his nickname \u201cCP3.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul played last season in San Antonio and forward Keldon Johnson gave up wearing No. 3 so Paul could have it. Paul has worn the number since he entered the NBA in 2005.<\/p>\n

Beal has yet to decide what number he\u2019ll wear for the upcoming season, Frank said.<\/p>\n

Paul, a free agent, signed with the Clippers for what is expected to be his 21st and final NBA season, citing a desire to return to Los Angeles where his family lives. He played 82 games for the Spurs, but will come off the bench for the Clippers.<\/p>\n

\u201cChris was the best guy for the job as long as we all understand what the role is,\u201d Frank said. \u201cThere will be nights Chris plays a lot and there will be nights he does not.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Paul and Bradley Beal were both acquired by the Clippers this summer. \u2022\u00a0Download the NBA App\u2022\u00a02025 Free…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,15836,459,82],"class_list":["post-18352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chris-paul-bradley-beal-clippers","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18352","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=18352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}