{"id":27227,"date":"2025-07-21T23:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T23:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/27227\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T23:15:12","slug":"chris-paul-reportedly-agrees-to-one-year-deal-with-la-clippers-at-age-of-40-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/27227\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Paul reportedly agrees to one-year deal with LA Clippers at age of 40 | NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Twelve-time All-Star Chris Paul is returning to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/los-angeles-clippers\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> on a one-year deal for his 21st NBA season, multiple outlets reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The deal is reportedly worth $3.6m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Paul, 40, joined Los Angeles leading up to the 2011-12 season, ultimately guiding the Clippers to at least 51 wins in five of his six seasons there. As a franchise, Los Angeles have won 50 or more games just seven times. An All-Star in five of his six seasons there, Paul ranks first in franchise history with 4,023 assists and 2.2 steals per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Paul joins a Clippers team who have recently signed Bradley Beal to a two-year deal and also added John Collins and Brook Lopez in free agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Paul has been named All-NBA 11 times, including four times as a first-team selection \u2013 three while with the Clippers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">He has averaged 17.0 points and 9.2 assists throughout his Hall of Fame career, which has spanned seven teams, most recently with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/san-antonio-spurs\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> this past season. His 2,717 career steals are second only to John Stockton with 3,265.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Paul was drafted No 4 overall by the then-New Orleans\/Oklahoma City Hornets in the 2005 draft. He won Rookie of the Year for the 2005-06 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twelve-time All-Star Chris Paul is returning to the Los Angeles Clippers on a one-year deal for his 21st&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-27227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}