This will be Chris Paul\u2019s last rodeo. <\/p>\n
The longtime NBA star, currently with the Clippers, is retiring after the season, he announced Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat a ride,\u201d Paul wrote on X. \u201cStill so much left\u2026GRATEFUL for this last one!!\u201d <\/p>\n
Chris Paul is retiring after the season. Getty Images<\/p>\n
In his 21st season in the league, Paul is back with the Clippers, where he previously spent six seasons from 2011-17. <\/p>\n
Paul, 40, is a 12-time All-Star, 11-time All-NBA member, nine-time All-Defense member and was the 2006 Rookie of the Year.<\/p>\n
He will likely end his career<\/a> without ever winning a championship, though, as the Clippers have struggled to start the year, entering Saturday with a 4-11 record<\/a>.<\/p>\n Paul was drafted with the No. 4 pick by then-New Orleans Hornets in 2005 and spent the first six years of his career with the team. <\/p>\n He then guided the Clippers for six seasons, part of the famous \u201cLob City\u201d core that included Blake Griffen and DeAndre Jordan.<\/p>\n Paul next had a two-year stint with the Rockets, where he and James Harden reached the conference finals in the 2017-18 season before being eliminated by the Warriors in seven games.<\/p>\n Then came a one-year stint with the Thunder before a three-year tenure with the Suns, where he reached the finals alongside Devin Booker in the 2020-21 campaign before losing to the Bucks in six games.<\/p>\n Chris Paul ranks second in NBA history in assists and steals. Getty Images<\/p>\n After the Suns, he spent one season with the Warriors and Spurs apiece before returning to the Clippers this year. <\/p>\n Paul was also involved in one of the most infamous sagas in recent memory.<\/p>\n Chris Paul after being drafted in 2005. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n The Hornets, who were owned by the NBA at the time agreed to trade him to the Lakers as part of a three-team deal in December of 2011, but then-commissioner David Stern vetoed the deal that would have paired Paul with Kobe Bryant. <\/p>\n A few days later, he was traded to the Clippers. <\/p>\n Paul ranks second in NBA history in both assists and steals, behind only John Stockton in both. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This will be Chris Paul\u2019s last rodeo. The longtime NBA star, currently with the Clippers, is retiring after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6425,27527,9136,9142,21,9,11,10,9138,319],"class_list":["post-48804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-chris-paul","tag-houston-rockets","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}