{"id":38924,"date":"2026-02-14T02:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/chris-paul-nba-legend-announces-retirement-at-40\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T02:49:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:49:03","slug":"chris-paul-nba-legend-announces-retirement-at-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/chris-paul-nba-legend-announces-retirement-at-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Paul: NBA legend announces retirement at 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">NBA legend Chris Paul has announced his retirement after being released by the Toronto Raptors. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 40-year-old, widely regarded as one of the sport&#8217;s greatest point guards, was a 12-time NBA All-Star and 2006 Rookie of the Year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of only seven players to enjoy an NBA career spanning 21 seasons, Paul also helped the United States claim Olympic gold medals in Beijing in 2008 and then four years later in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is it! After 21 years I&#8217;m stepping away from basketball,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUtPyqHiaxe\/?img_index=1\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">posted on Instagram.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Mostly I&#8217;m filled with so much joy and gratitude! While this chapter of being an &#8216;NBA player&#8217; is done, the game of basketball will forever be ingrained in the DNA of my life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been in the NBA for more than half of my life, spanning three decades. It&#8217;s crazy even saying that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul, who was nicknamed the &#8216;Point of God&#8217;, averaged 16.8 points, 9.2 assists, 4.4 rebounds and two steals a game during a 1,370-game career that started at the New Orleans Hornets in 2005 and effectively ended after a second spell at the Los Angeles Clippers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also featured for the Houston Rockets, Oklahoma City Thunder, the Phoenix Suns and the Golden State Warriors, but never played on an NBA championship-winning team. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He came closest to a gold ring in 2021, when Phoenix reached the NBA finals, only to lose to the Milwaukee Bucks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul, who retires second in NBA history for both assists (12,552) and steals (2,728), <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">had not played since 1 December, with the Clippers trading him to Toronto earlier this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/cy7jkn7r4e0o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBA legend Chris Paul has announced his retirement after being released by the Toronto Raptors. The 40-year-old, widely regarded as one of the sport&#8217;s greatest point guards, was a 12-time NBA All-Star and 2006 Rookie of the Year. One of only seven players to enjoy an NBA career spanning 21 seasons, Paul also helped the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38926,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38924\/revisions\/38926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}