{"id":173767,"date":"2025-07-16T04:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T04:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/173767\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T04:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T04:28:10","slug":"chris-pauls-free-agency-gets-big-los-angeles-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/173767\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Paul&#8217;s free agency gets big Los Angeles update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Paul wants to stay close to his family in free agency.<\/p>\n<p>That made Los Angeles a desirable destination for the future Hall of Famer.<\/p>\n<p>L.A., of course, has two NBA teams: the Lakers and the Clippers.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JWeinbachNBA\/status\/1945202020262048187\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NBA reporter Jake Weinbach;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NBA reporter Jake Weinbach<\/a>, Paul is closing in on a deal with the Clippers.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>CP3, of course, played for the Clippers back when they were Lob City and he teamed with Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>Paul is a 12-time All-Star, a six-time steals champ and a five-time assist champ.<\/p>\n<p>Now 40 years old, Paul is probably looking at his final NBA season.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024-25, he started all 82 games for the Spurs. He put up 8.8 points, 7.4 assists and 1.3 steals per game.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\/news\/lebron-james-wants-play-michael-jordan\/c0ab8733b1754ded1ee4aef1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:LeBron James wants to play basketball with Michael Jordan;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">LeBron James wants to play basketball with Michael Jordan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his career, Paul has averaged 17.0 points, 9.2 assists and 2.0 steals per game.<\/p>\n<p>He has shot above 37% from 3-point range each of the past three seasons, too.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers could certainly use another veteran winner like Paul to join their experienced group.<\/p>\n<p>And if it&#8217;s the Clippers and not the Lakers, it&#8217;s a bit of a swing in the L.A. hoops rivalry.<\/p>\n<p>MORE NBA NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Paul wants to stay close to his family in free agency. That made Los Angeles a desirable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,2545,2596,559,761,4034,192,4032,300,185,251,135,4033,4031,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-173767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-clippers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blake-griffin","10":"tag-chris-paul","11":"tag-clippers","12":"tag-deandre-jordan","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-la-clippers","15":"tag-laclippers","16":"tag-lakers","17":"tag-lebron-james","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","20":"tag-losangeles","21":"tag-losangelesclippers","22":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114861028508055008","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}