{"id":304579,"date":"2025-11-24T21:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/304579\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T21:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:55:10","slug":"i-hope-he-never-wins-an-nba-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/304579\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI hope he never wins an NBA championship&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Lakers head coach JJ Redick offered a mix of humor, honesty, and admiration when speaking about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/chris-paul\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Paul\u2019s<\/a> retirement announcement. Paul confirmed this week that the 2025\u201326 campaign \u2014 his 21st NBA season \u2014 will be his final one, closing the book on a storied career that includes two Olympic gold medals and a long list of accolades.<\/p>\n<p>Redick, who played alongside Paul with the Los Angeles Clippers from 2013\u201317, reflected on their shared history after Lakers practice. The two never captured an NBA championship together \u2014 or individually \u2014 though Paul will have one final chance as he reunites with the Clippers this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope he doesn\u2019t win an NBA championship because that would mean the Clippers win an NBA championship and we don\u2019t,\u201d Redick joked to <a href=\"http:\/\/olympics.com\/\" data-tracking-payload=\"{&quot;implementation_provider&quot;:&quot;sed&quot;,&quot;content_geography&quot;:&quot;AF,AX,AL,DZ,AS,AD,AO,AI,AQ,AG,AR,AM,AW,AU,AT,AZ,BS,BH,BD,BB,BY,BE,BZ,BJ,BM,BT,BO,BQ,BA,BW,BV,BR,IO,UM,VG,VI,BN,BG,BF,BI,KH,CM,CA,CV,KY,CF,TD,CL,CN,CX,CC,CO,KM,CG,CD,CK,CR,HR,CU,CW,CY,CZ,DK,DJ,DM,DO,EC,EG,SV,GQ,ER,EE,ET,FK,FO,FJ,FI,FR,GF,PF,TF,GA,GM,GE,DE,GH,GI,GR,GL,GD,GP,GU,GT,GG,GN,GW,GY,HT,HM,VA,HN,HK,HU,IS,IN,ID,CI,IR,IQ,IE,IM,IL,IT,JM,JP,JE,JO,KZ,KE,KI,KW,KG,LA,LV,LB,LS,LR,LY,LI,LT,LU,MO,MK,MG,MW,MY,MV,ML,MT,MH,MQ,MR,MU,YT,MX,FM,MD,MC,MN,ME,MS,MA,MZ,MM,NA,NR,NP,NL,NC,NZ,NI,NE,NG,NU,NF,KP,MP,NO,OM,PK,PW,PS,PA,PG,PY,PE,PH,PN,PL,PT,PR,QA,RE,RO,RU,RW,BL,SH,KN,LC,MF,PM,VC,WS,SM,ST,SA,SN,RS,SC,SL,SG,SX,SK,SI,SB,SO,ZA,GS,KR,SS,ES,LK,SD,SR,SJ,SZ,SE,CH,SY,TW,TJ,TZ,TH,TL,TG,TK,TO,TT,TN,TR,TM,TC,TV,UG,UA,AE,GB,US,UY,UZ,VU,VE,VN,WF,EH,YE,ZM,ZW,XK&quot;,&quot;content_id&quot;:&quot;6eb3bf3b-f734-4fc4-824e-22a615060a0d&quot;,&quot;content_release_date_local_utc&quot;:&quot;2025-11-24T19:44:00Z&quot;,&quot;content_title&quot;:&quot;Basketball: JJ Redick reflects on Chris Paul\u2019s retirement announcement: \u201cI hope he never wins an NBA championship\\&quot;&quot;,&quot;tag&quot;:&quot;[\\&quot;discipline-basketball\\&quot;,\\&quot;newsclip\\&quot;,\\&quot;apple-news-all\\&quot;,\\&quot;gender-male\\&quot;,\\&quot;chris-paul\\&quot;]&quot;,&quot;module_type&quot;:&quot;TextBlock&quot;,&quot;module_title&quot;:&quot;Basketball: JJ Redick reflects on Chris Paul\u2019s retirement announcement: \u201cI hope he never wins an NBA championship\\&quot;&quot;,&quot;section_level_1&quot;:&quot;news&quot;,&quot;section_level_2&quot;:&quot;basketball-jj-redick-reflects-on-chris-paul-s-retirement-announcement-i-hope-he-never-wins-an-nba-championship&quot;,&quot;discipline&quot;:&quot;discipline-basketball&quot;,&quot;odf_id&quot;:&quot;BKB&quot;,&quot;module_instance&quot;:&quot;Inline&quot;,&quot;module_id&quot;:null}\" data-tracking=\"click\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olympics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers head coach JJ Redick offered a mix of humor, honesty, and admiration when speaking about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-304579","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\/304579","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=304579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}