{"id":29259,"date":"2025-07-22T18:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/29259\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:10:10","slug":"clippers-chris-paul-reunite-as-point-guard-gears-up-for-21st-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/29259\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers, Chris Paul reunite as point guard gears up for 21st season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Clippers<\/a> went from \u201cstrongly, strongly considering\u201d bringing Chris Paul<\/a> back to the franchise to actually agreeing to a deal with the point guard on Monday.<\/p>\n

Lawrence Frank, the Clippers\u2019 president of basketball operations, told the media Saturday in a Zoom that Paul \u201cobviously possesses some of the qualities we just referenced\u201d and that led to the two sides agreeing to a veteran\u2019s minimum deal of about $3.6 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cChris is one of the most impactful players ever to wear a Clippers uniform and it\u2019s appropriate that he returns to the team for this chapter of his career,\u201d Frank said in a statement Monday. \u201cChris will help fortify our backcourt with his exceptional ballhandling, playmaking and shooting. He is joining us as a reserve point guard and is excited to fill whatever role [coach Tyronn] Lue asks him to play. He wants to be part of the group and we\u2019re fortunate to have him back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul joined the Clippers for the 2011-12 season and was with the team until 2017 as he teamed with Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan to form the core of the \u201cLob City\u201d teams.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I\u2019d say about Chris is he\u2019s a great player,\u201d Frank said Saturday. \u201cHe\u2019s a great Clipper.\u201d<\/p>\n

In what is likely his final season in the NBA, Paul will be entering his 21st campaign and will do so in Los Angeles, where his family lives.<\/p>\n

Paul, 40, played in all 82 games last season with the San Antonio Spurs. He averaged 28.0 minutes per game, 8.8 points, 3.6 rebounds, 7.4 assists and shot 42.7% from the field.<\/p>\n

Over the course of his career, Paul averaged 17.0 points, 9.2 assists and shot 47% from the field and 37% from three-point range.<\/p>\n

Paul, a 12-time NBA All-Star, was a teammate with James Harden<\/a> during the 2017-18 season with the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n

With the addition of Paul, the Clippers now have five veteran guards. They signed Bradley Beal<\/a> to a two-year, $11-million deal and they also have Harden, Kris Dunn and Bogdan Bogdanovic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Clippers went from \u201cstrongly, strongly considering\u201d bringing Chris Paul back to the franchise to actually agreeing to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[24796,6420,7630,12530,15635,6418,21400,4281,355,4363,24795,5190,99,1599,20465,24797,24798],"class_list":["post-29259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-assist","tag-chris-paul","tag-clippers","tag-deal","tag-field","tag-james-harden","tag-lawrence-frank","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-nba","tag-paul","tag-point-guard-gear","tag-season","tag-sports","tag-team","tag-three-point-range","tag-veteran","tag-zoom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29259","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=29259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}