{"id":508363,"date":"2026-02-13T16:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=508363"},"modified":"2026-02-13T16:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:13:24","slug":"chris-paul-retires-from-the-nba-after-21-campaign","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/chris-paul-retires-from-the-nba-after-21-campaigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Paul retires from the NBA after 21 campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Paul revealed his retirement from the NBA today.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Point God&#8221; had shared earlier that he would retire at the end of the current campaign, his 21<sup>st<\/sup> in the league.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a chapter of my life ended. After 21 seasons, I&#8217;m stepping away from this game,\u201d the guard shared on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Chris, who is 40 years old, is a 12-time All-Star, an 11-time All-NBA selection, a 9-time All-Defensive selection, the 2006 ROY, a 2-time Olympic gold medalist, and a member of the NBA&#8217;s 75th Anniversary Team.<\/p>\n<p>Paul was waived earlier today by the Raptors after being traded from the Clippers at the beginning of the month. Toronto doesn\u2019t require the point guard to report to the organization and tried to trade him.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian team knew Chris would never play there, and that\u2019s why everyone expected that he would be traded to finish the campaign with a different team and try to win his 1<sup>st<\/sup> NBA title.<\/p>\n<p>Paul was the 1<sup>st<\/sup> basketballer to score at least 20,000 points while recording at least 10,000 assists; LeBron James and Russell Westbrook have both since done so.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Chris Paul is retiring from the NBA after 21 seasons, he announced on social media <\/p>\n<p>One of the best to ever do it \ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oejVBys8Su\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/oejVBys8Su<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/2022370615362019627?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 13, 2026<\/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>Chris Paul revealed his retirement from the NBA today. The &#8220;Point God&#8221; had shared earlier that he would retire at the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484711,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17087,17079],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[17558,18089],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The guard announced his retirement after 21 years in the league.","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\/508363"}],"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=508363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508365,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508363\/revisions\/508365"}],"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=508363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508363"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=508363"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=508363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}