{"id":300306,"date":"2025-11-22T20:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T20:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/300306\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T20:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T20:18:11","slug":"chris-paul-hints-at-retirement-from-nba-with-video-before-clippers-hornets-game-in-his-home-state-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/300306\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Paul hints at retirement from NBA with video before Clippers-Hornets game in his home state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763839688_153_imageRedirect\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Clippers guard Chris Paul warms up before of an NBA basketball game against the Charlotte Hornets in Charlotte, N.C., Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025. (AP Photo\/Nell Redmond)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tNov 22, 2025 | 12:24 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Los Angeles Clippers point guard Chris Paul hinted his potential retirement prior to the team\u2019s game against the Charlotte Hornets on Saturday in what would be his final game in his home state of North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>The Winston-Salem, North Carolina, native <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CP3\/status\/1992232807511494812?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">released a video on social media<\/a> about 90 minutes before tipoff showing highlights of him playing for several NBA teams throughout his 21-year professional career. The video also includes Paul from childhood through high school and his days playing at Wake Forest and getting drafted into the league. <\/p>\n<p>In the post on X, Paul wrote \u201cBack in NC!!! What a ride\u2026Still so much left\u2026GRATEFUL for this last one!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old Paul signed a one-year deal to return to the Clippers prior to the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Clippers guard Chris Paul warms up before of an NBA basketball game against the Charlotte Hornets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-300306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300306","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=300306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}