saw Paul land in Toronto<\/a>.<\/p>\nHe did not play with the Raptors before they reportedly waived him Friday, with the news of his release coming shortly before he announced his retirement.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been in the NBA for more than half of my life, spanning three decades,\u201d Paul continued in his message. \u201cIt\u2019s crazy even saying that!! Playing basketball for a living has been an unbelievable blessing that also came with lots of responsibility. I embraced it all. The good and the bad.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chris Paul competing against Kobe Bryant in his younger days with New Orleans. REUTERS<\/p>\n
Paul retires as one of the greatest point guards in league history, making 12 All-Star teams and 11 All-NBA squads, plus earning a spot on the NBA\u2019s 75th Anniversary Team.<\/p>\n
He averaged 16.8 points and 9.2 assists per game while also playing for New Orleans, Phoenix, Houston, San Antonio, Oklahoma City and Golden State.<\/p>\n
The one cruel twist to his career is he will be remembered as one of the greatest players to not win a championship, appearing in the Finals just once and losing to the Bucks with the Suns in 2021.<\/p>\n
Paul\u2019s goodbye message took a trip down memory lane, with the point guard reminiscing on trips to the YMCA in the snow while remembering the injuries he faced over the years.<\/p>\n
Chris Paul during a November 2025 game. AP<\/p>\n
He also thanked the teammates, coaches and executives he worked with over the years.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels really good knowing that I played and treated this game with the utmost respect since the day my dad introduced to me to me it,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s looking forward to now focusing on his family: wife Jada, son Chris Jr. and daughter Camryn.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo now with all the gratitude that I could possibly have\u2026 it\u2019s time for me to show up for others and in other ways,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThis last season I knew I couldn\u2019t do it unless I was at home with my family. Those six years were a lot of sacrifice for all of us and I know that had to come to an end. And I now know wholeheartedly the best teammate I can be is to Jada, Chris II and Cam!!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Paul moved up his retirement plans. The 40-year-old point guard announced Friday he is retiring during his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[6420,11952,355,99,2970],"class_list":{"0":"post-466932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-chris-paul","9":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-toronto-raptors"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466932","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=466932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}