{"id":402786,"date":"2023-02-07T20:23:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T01:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=402786"},"modified":"2023-02-07T22:05:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T03:05:08","slug":"chris-paul-becomes-4th-player-in-nba-history-with-2500-steals","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/chris-paul-becomes-4th-player-in-nba-history-with-2500-steals\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Paul becomes 4th player in NBA history with 2,500 steals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns point guard Chris Paul recorded his 2500th career steal during the first quarter of Tuesday night\u2019s matchup against the Brooklyn Nets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">That\u2019s 2,500 career steals for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CP3?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@CP3<\/a> \ud83d\udc4b<\/p>\n<p>Congrats on becoming the 4th player in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NBA<\/a> history to swipe 2,500 steals! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bA298vJuH5\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bA298vJuH5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Phoenix Suns (@Suns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Suns\/status\/1623120285183655936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old Paul nicknamed \u201cThe Point God\u201d, became only the 4th player in the NBA&#8217;s history to swipe 2,500 steals.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of him are only some of the greatest basketball players of all time, such as Michael Jordan, Jason Kidd, and John Stockton.<\/p>\n<p>Paul, who is only 14 steals behind Jordan, has recorded at least one steal in each of the past eight games, the longest current streak in the NBA.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congrats to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CP3?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@CP3<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Suns?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Suns<\/a> for becoming the 4th player in NBA history to record 2,500+ career steals! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AujodF2diO\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/AujodF2diO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1623120594970591237?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns point guard Chris Paul recorded his 2500th career steal during the first quarter of Tuesday night\u2019s matchup against the Brooklyn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":402787,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16720,17087,17005],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Michael Jordan, Jason Kidd and John Stockton are the only players ahead of him","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/402786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/402786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402786"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=402786"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=402786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}