{"id":484710,"date":"2024-06-28T15:03:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T19:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484710"},"modified":"2024-06-28T14:45:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T18:45:56","slug":"chris-pauls-contract-extension-pushed-back-until-sunday","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/chris-pauls-contract-extension-pushed-back-until-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Paul&#8217;s contract extension pushed back until Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday&#8217;s deadline to guarantee Chris Paul&#8217;s $30 million contract for the next season with the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/golden-state-warriors\/\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> will be extended to the start of free agency on Sunday, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">ESPN Sources: Golden State and Chris Paul intend to move back the date to guarantee the $30 million on his 2024-2025 contract to the start of free agency on Sunday. Deadline was originally today. This gives Warriors time to keep exploring trades.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/1806735801004241330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The reason is that Warriors want to buy themselves additional time to explore potential trade options, as reported by ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Paul is entering the final season of the four-year, $120 million contract he initially signed with the Phoenix Suns before the 2021-22 season. The 39-year-old veteran point guard was traded from the Suns to the Washington Wizards just over a year ago and subsequently moved to the Warriors two weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>During the last season with the Warriors, Paul played in 58 games, starting in 18 of them. He averaged 9.2 points and 6.8 assists in a career-low 26.4 minutes per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday&#8217;s deadline to guarantee Chris Paul&#8217;s $30 million contract for the next season with the Golden State Warriors will be extended to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":484711,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17087,16989],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17558,17876],"acf":{"announce":"The $30 million option on the deals is yet to be signed ","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\/484710"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484712,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484710\/revisions\/484712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484710"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484710"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}