{"id":30575,"date":"2025-07-29T00:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T00:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/30575\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T00:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T00:12:08","slug":"cp3-it-was-a-no-brainer-to-return-to-clippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/30575\/","title":{"rendered":"CP3: &#8216;It was a no-brainer&#8217; to return to Clippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Paul had his heart set on the Los Angeles Clippers from the beginning of free agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a no-brainer,&#8221; Paul <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBA\/status\/1949967784567324893\" rel=\"nofollow\">told<\/a> reporters Monday at his introductory press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Paul added, &#8220;The easiest decision in this &#8230; is my family. Getting a chance to be around them. Be around a lot more. And get a chance to compete and play for a championship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paul first thought about a return to L.A. when he helped the Phoenix Suns clinch a Finals berth on the Clippers&#8217; home floor three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old says he remembers looking up at the arena box suites and seeing all the Clippers personnel that had become &#8220;extended family&#8221; over his six seasons with the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to get back and play here by any means necessary,&#8221; Paul <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBA\/status\/1949973716093260098\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a>. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t even care what the team looked like. I just wanted to be home. Be here with the Clippers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just so excited about the moves that the team has made this offseason. &#8230; I&#8217;m even more excited about what I think we have a chance to do.<\/p>\n<p>Paul spent the prime of his career with the Clippers, earning six NBA All-Defensive first-team nods, five All-Star selections, and making the All-NBA first-team on three occasions. He remains the organization&#8217;s all-time leader in assists and ranks second in steals.<\/p>\n<p>Paul joins a formidable core featuring Kawhi Leonard, James Harden, and Ivica Zubac.<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers also added three-time All-Star Bradley Beal, forward John Collins, and veteran big man Brook Lopez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Paul had his heart set on the Los Angeles Clippers from the beginning of free agency. &#8220;It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-30575","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\/30575","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=30575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}