{"id":397386,"date":"2025-11-22T17:41:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/397386\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T17:41:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:41:29","slug":"chris-paul-retiring-after-season-to-end-legendary-21-year-nba-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/397386\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Paul retiring after season to end legendary 21-year NBA run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will be Chris Paul\u2019s last rodeo. <\/p>\n<p>The longtime NBA star, currently with the Clippers, is retiring after the season, he announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat a ride,\u201d Paul wrote on X. \u201cStill so much left\u2026GRATEFUL for this last one!!\u201d <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37738557\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/user-expressly-acknowledges-agrees-downloading-114954136.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Paul #3 of the LA Clippers in action.\" class=\"wp-image-37738557\"  \/>Chris Paul is retiring after the season.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>In his 21st season in the league, Paul is back with the Clippers, where he previously spent six seasons from 2011-17. <\/p>\n<p>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<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/07\/sports\/chris-paul-hints-at-retirement-after-20-nba-seasons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He will likely end his career<\/a> without ever winning a championship, though, as the Clippers have struggled to start the year, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/13\/sports\/kawhi-leonards-return-from-significant-injury-nowhere-in-sight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">entering Saturday with a 4-11 record<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated. <\/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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":397387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10446,3142,1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-397386","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-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115594585499192005","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}