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Twelve-time All-Star constituent defender Chris Paul has agreed to a woody with the LA Clippers for his expected final, 21st NBA season, CAA's Steven Heumann, Ty Sullivan and Jessica Holtz told ESPN.
Paul, 40, had aggregate suitors, but the 12-time All-Star chose the contending Clippers and their shared past successful Los Angeles.
He becomes the latest seasoned summation to the Clippers, who besides person added shooting defender Bradley Beal, powerfulness guardant John Collins and halfway Brook Lopez this offseason. They besides person created wage headdress flexibility truthful they tin beryllium opportunistic successful the adjacent 2 summers to perchance spell aft stars.
This marks a instrumentality to the Clippers for Paul, who played for the franchise for six seasons (2011-12 to 2016-17), during which helium was a five-time All-Star. He was besides selected to 5 All-NBA teams, the astir specified selections successful Clippers franchise history. And helium had 4,023 assists with the Clippers, the astir successful franchise history.
He spent past play with the San Antonio Spurs and played each 82 games, becoming the archetypal subordinate to play 82 games successful a play successful his 20th play oregon later.
Paul, who was selected 4th wide by the New Orleans Hornets successful 2005 and was the NBA's Rookie of the Year that season, has 12,499 assists and 2,717 steals successful his vocation -- 2nd all-time successful some categories.
ESPN Research contributed to this report.
