Chris Paul Rumors

Mikal Bridges says Chris Paul sent him a helmet after being traded to the Nets cause people play football in the east: “Shoutout CP3 you a f***ing troll, my n***a man! My vet. Old ass…”

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JR Smith: I did not grow up a Knicks fan. I hated the Knicks. I did not like Patrick Ewing. I did not like John Starks. I didn't like anything about the Knicks. I was a Bulls fan. I was a Michael Jordan fan. Michael Jordan is my GOAT. That's it. And my agent calls me and he gives he gives me these list of teams. Only thing I kept bringing me back was playing with Chris Paul. He's going to pass the ball. I'm going to be in a great situation. They play fast. They play up and down. My type of style. I tell him, all right. I'm going to the Clippers. He's like, all right. I get on a flight, land in LA. God rest in peace, Mark Warkentien. He is the first person I see. I was with him in Denver. He's like, "Kid, what are you doing?" I was like, I'm going to LA. He was like, "You really want to do that?" And had this conversation. I'm like, okay. Go to the hotel, go to sleep. I wake up. I said, "I'm going to New York." And my dad was the first person I told cuz my dad was a Knicks fan.

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NBA on ESPN: "[Victor Wembanyama is going] to make you question everything you've even learned about the game." -- Chris Paul shares his thoughts on Wemby's impact on the court

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Charlie Villanueva on Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: I wouldn't even put him in the top 10.  Q. Give me 10 point guards, combo point guards, it doesn’t matter. Villanueva: Magic Johnson, Isiah Thomas, Stephen Curry, Allen Iverson, John Stockton… I wouldn't put him up past John Stockton, fam. Q. But that's only five you've named so far. Villanueva: Okay, let me get there! Steve Nash, Chris Paul… Okay. I'm cool. I'm cool with all these… Oh, also Tony Parker. (…) He’s not in front of Jason Kidd. (…) Bob Cousy. Pistol Pete.

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Chris Paul: "I'm honestly not worried about Vic lasting, right, playing for a long, a long time in the league because his preparation, the way he works, the way he trains, all the little details, he's that competitive. I told you, like when I got there, whether it's ping pong, whether it's chess, whether it's just shooting games after practice, and he's like a student of the game. Like he watches everything constantly and it's kind of crazy to see it all come together. Because I remember, I went to go watch him play before he came to the NBA. And he was 7'5" wing player. And he just keeps learning things throughout the years. And if you watch down the stretch of that game, the lobs that Vic caught when Caruso was guarding him, those are plays that he didn't used to do. He was just always on the perimeter. But now he realized that he can score in so many different ways."

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Broku: Chris Paul says you can become stressed just thinking about being stressed. He says the worst gut issues of his career weren't caused by food. They were caused by stress. What Paul does when he feels the stress loop starting: • Gets around his family • Takes a break from work and slows down • Resets his nervous system before it spirals • Stops trying to be everything for everybody He says trying to be everything for everybody is what runs you ragged. Most people are stuck in a loop of being stressed about being stressed, and their cortisol pays the price. The thing wrecking your gut is rarely on your plate. — Chris Paul on Dr. Mark Hyman's ( @drmarkhyman ) podcast PS: B2C health apps, SaaS, brand or info founders: If you want content just like this to turn 𝕏 into your #1 organic acquisition channel in the next 90 days...

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Austin Rivers: I didn't get in the league because of my dad. And I didn't stay in the league because of my dad. Now, do I get to be a part of a team and an opportunity with a with a staff that believed in me and a coach that I knew I could play freely for? Absolutely, man. That's why I came back. That's why when Portland offered me 40 million, that's why when Phil Jackson was trying to explain the goddamn Triangle offense in my living room, I didn't go to New York. I went back to LA to get that bag so I could go play for my pops and I could play freely and be myself, which I actually ended up doing pretty f*cking solid as a role player under Chris Paul and Jamal Crawford.

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StatMuse: Players with 20+ PTS, 10+ AST, 3+ STL, 0 TOV in a playoff game since 1990: — Magic Johnson — Chris Paul — Tyrese Haliburton and Ajay Mitchell.

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Austin Rivers: I didn’t get in the league because of my dad, and I didn’t stay in the league because of my dad. Now, did I get to be a part of a team and an opportunity with a staff that believed in me, and a coach that I knew I could play freely for? Absolutely, man. That’s why I came back. That’s why, when Portland offered me $40 million, that’s why, when Phil Jackson was trying to explain the goddamn Triangle offense in my living room, I didn’t go to New York. I went back to L.A. to get that bag so I could go play for my pops, and I could play freely and be myself, which I actually ended up doing pretty solid as a role player under Chris Paul, Jamal Crawford. That’s what my role was. That’s all I ever was in the NBA: a role player. I was never a star.

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Chris Paul explains his IG story post: "I was playing cards with my family man. We was playing...I won the card game"

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Before Stephen Curry became a superstar with the Golden State Warriors, the sweet shooter participated in Chris Paul's first elite guard camp while at Davidson. The two point guards also trained together the following summer -- and even found time to go to Walt Disney World while Paul was on a family vacation in Orlando, Florida -- before Curry's rookie season in Golden State in 2009. Few have gone through the entire Paul experience like Curry, who went from mentee to rival before becoming teammates in Golden State during the 2023-24 season. "That was the start of the relationship that extended into my rookie year and ever since in terms of the friendship," Curry told ESPN of attending Paul's camp. "He's just a dude that loves the game, loves to give back to it, is always going out his way to give advice or be available. He's impacted lives in a phenomenal way."

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The possibility that he could eventually face his campers on the next level has never stopped Paul from imparting his wisdom on the younger generation. "I'm telling them all the little nuances of how I steal the ball," the 12-time All-Star said. "How I read the pick-and-roll, how I do this, how I do that. I would show them ways that I steal the ball. And then a lot of them make it to the NBA and I try to do it to them. And they'd be like, 'Oh no! No, you told us this at camp.' They know the sweep-through, they know the jab moves and all that stuff."

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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Paul were teammates for one season in Oklahoma City, joining the team in separate trades in the summer of 2019. Paul quickly became Gilgeous-Alexander's mentor, showing the Thunder's future superstar how to handle things off the court, how to navigate the weight room, treatment, diet and keep his body in peak shape. "I would say more than anything, he really showed me how to be a pro," Gilgeous-Alexander said. "When he plays, he does a really good job of doing every little thing that you can to try to get an edge out there, get a win or get the better of your opponent. Whether it's knowing the rules, knowing their plays or knowing the situation in the game, what they want to run, who they want to go to -- he's just always locked into the little things on the court that help you win. So that's [how] he inspired me."

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Farbod Esnaashari: Chris Paul posted this on Instagram roughly 15 minutes after the Clippers' were eliminated by the Warriors.

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