{"id":437477,"date":"2023-06-07T19:03:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T23:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437477"},"modified":"2023-06-07T19:03:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T23:03:01","slug":"phoenix-to-waive-chris-paul","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/phoenix-to-waive-chris-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix to waive Chris Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns told Chris Paul they decided to waive him, and the point guard will become a free agent.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Phoenix Suns have waived Chris Paul, making him a free agent, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisBHaynes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ChrisBHaynes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eILR753xOe\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/eILR753xOe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAonTNT\/status\/1666555989749841921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The veteran had almost 14 points, 9 assists, and 4 boards in 59 matches with the franchise in the past campaign. It was the lowest point-per-match average of his NBA career.<\/p>\n<p>Chris was part of 7 postseason matches but was unavailable for the final 4 matches of the Phoenix 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round matchup defeat to the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> because of an injury.<\/p>\n<p>Chris had 2 partially guaranteed years remaining on a 4-year, 120 million dollars deal he inked with the franchise. He has almost 16 million dollars guaranteed for the upcoming season, but the deal is non-guaranteed for the 24-25.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Chris Paul plans to play several more years and look to join a contending team, per B\/R&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisBHaynes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ChrisBHaynes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sXgxqDe6tC\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/sXgxqDe6tC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1666558629284069376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns told Chris Paul they decided to waive him, and the point guard will become a free agent. The Phoenix Suns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":437478,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17087,17837,17005],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17558,17557,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Suns will waive the veteran.","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\/437477"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437477"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437477"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}