{"id":454074,"date":"2026-02-04T21:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/454074\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T21:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:08:07","slug":"is-chris-paul-going-to-play-again-this-season-how-one-more-roster-move-could-finally-help-his-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/454074\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Chris Paul going to play again this season? How one more roster move could finally help his cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let the <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBA <\/a>trade deadline madness continue.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, a multi-team trade took place, with Chris Paul being sent to the <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/toronto-raptors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Raptors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After months of not playing with the <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/los-angeles-clippers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Clippers<\/a> following a fallout with the team, Paul was moved to Toronto, but questions still are being asked about CP3&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>Is Chris Paul going to play again this season?<\/p>\n<p>The answer seems to be complicated.<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggest Paul will be waived, as the trade was mainly done to shed salary for Toronto and get them out of the tax.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/milwaukee-bucks\/news\/bucks-rumored-finally-trade-without-giannis-involved\/8f516ed8e1f5cb4e2a98412b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bucks rumored to finally make a trade, but without Giannis Antetokounmpo involved<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paul announced before this season started that he expected this year to be his last season in the NBA, and he now waits to see what is next for him.<\/p>\n<p>Paul&#8217;s last game played this season was on 12\/1, over two months ago.<\/p>\n<p>If Paul does get waived, there&#8217;s a chance he could get signed by a contender\/other team.<\/p>\n<p>Having a veteran guard like Paul is something I&#8217;m sure teams will value, so there&#8217;s still potentially a market for Paul, as he could be signed by a new team when the Raptors eventually waive him.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA articles:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let the NBA trade deadline madness continue. On Wednesday, a multi-team trade took place, with Chris Paul being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-454074","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\/454074","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=454074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}