Fresh off their respective retirements, Chris Paul and Russell Westbrook vacationed together in Portofino, Italy, over the past week with their wives and others.<\/p>\n
Paul and Westbrook — who were notably swapped for one another in a 2019 trade<\/a> — chronicled their trip on various social media posts.<\/p>\n One post showed Paul, 41, who is second in career assists, throwing a lob to Westbrook on a court stationed on a yacht. Westbrook, 37, who is fifth in assists, then returned the favor, connecting on an alley-oop with Paul. They captioned the Instagram post: “Retirement …”<\/p>\n Paul shared a collage on Instagram three days later with more visuals. The two mixed on a DJ set and played tennis together. Another slide showed an image of Westbrook and Paul during a game when Paul was with the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a>and Westbrook with the Houston Rockets<\/a>.<\/p>\n Carmelo Anthony commented “My guys!!! Love to see this! It gets better,” while Dwyane Wade wrote: “Yes Sir!” Westbrook also commented: “What a time my brother.”<\/p>\n But, it was the tennis video that caught the attention of Paul’s former Thunder teammate Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a>. The two-time MVP commented: “I’ll fry you in tennis.”<\/p>\n Gilgeous-Alexander and Paul share a close relationship after playing together in 2019-20. In February, Gilgeous-Alexander said Paul<\/a> was “special for my career.”<\/p>\n Westbrook announced his retirement in August after an 18-year playing career, and Paul retired in February following 21 years in the league. Paul had an unceremonious end to his career with the LA Clippers<\/a> sending him home<\/a> last December. He recently said<\/a> on the “Build or Break” podcast that the situation was “probably one of the most disrespectful things that I’ve endured.”<\/p>\n Two of the greatest point guards of all time, they never suited up together in the NBA. However, they won a gold medal as part of Team USA at the 2012 Olympics.<\/p>\n And they are widely expected to be part of the same Basketball Hall of Fame class in 2029.br\/]<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh off their respective retirements, Chris Paul and Russell Westbrook vacationed together in Portofino, Italy, over the past…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[307272,49,48,6687,1161,34087,459,3555,82,307271],"class_list":["post-885842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-307272","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chris-paul","tag-espn","tag-la-clippers","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-sports","tag-westbrook-russell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885842","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=885842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}