Suns, Chris Paul exploring options, including trade or waive: Sources
1 year, 7 months ago

Suns, Chris Paul exploring options, including trade or waive: Sources

New York Times  

By Shams Charania, Doug Haller and John Hollinger The Phoenix Suns have notified Chris Paul that they intend to find a resolution this offseason that fits the veteran star and the Suns organization, which could include parting ways, league sources tell The Athletic. The Suns and Paul are exploring multiple options, league sources tell The Athletic, including a trade, waiving and stretching his contract over multiple years, or waiving and potentially re-resigning him in free agency. The one thing that is crystal clear is that waiving Paul would make absolutely no sense; the Suns would end up paying him $15.8 million to play for the Lakers and wouldn’t generate enough cap room to sign anyone better. Waiving Paul and using the stretch provision on him would still leave the Suns above the salary cap, and with just five players under contract for next season. Finally, if the Suns wanted to clear room below the luxury tax aprons and were unable to put together trades involving Paul or Deandre Ayton, a better alternative would be to waive Landry Shamet and use the stretch provision to spread his $10.2 million salary over seven years.

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Warriors waive guard Chris Paul after 1 season: Sources
6 months, 1 week ago

Warriors waive guard Chris Paul after 1 season: Sources

New York Times  

By Shams Charania, Anthony Slater, John Hollinger and Alex Andrejev The Golden State Warriors are waiving Chris Paul, league sources said. After joining Golden State last summer in a trade that sent Jordan Poole to the Washington Wizards, Paul averaged a career-low 9.2 points per game through 58 contests. He averaged 6.8 assists and 3.9 rebounds per game last season, …

The Suns built a superteam with Durant, Booker and Beal. It produced zero playoff wins
8 months, 1 week ago

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Associated Press  

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Phoenix Suns and Grayson Allen finalize contract extension after career-best season
8 months, 3 weeks ago

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Associated Press  

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Suns lose 2024 second-round pick over early free-agency discussions involving Drew Eubanks
1 year, 2 months ago

Suns lose 2024 second-round pick over early free-agency discussions involving Drew Eubanks

New York Times  

The Athletic has live coverage of Suns vs Lakers in the quarterfinal of the NBA In-Season Tournament. The Phoenix Suns will forfeit a 2024 second-round NBA Draft pick after the league found they engaged in free-agency discussions involving Drew Eubanks prior to the permitted date, the NBA announced Wednesday. The 6-foot-9 center and power forward played in 78 games with …

Bradley Beal trade grades: Instant reaction as Suns form a new big 3 in Phoenix
1 year, 6 months ago

Bradley Beal trade grades: Instant reaction as Suns form a new big 3 in Phoenix

New York Times  

Once Bradley Beal finally decided to explore greener pastures outside of a Washington Wizards uniform, it didn’t take long for a deal to be finalized. Shams Charania is reporting the Wizards are trading Beal to the Phoenix Suns in exchange for Chris Paul, Landry Shamet, “a handful of second-round picks” and multiple first-round pick swaps. BREAKING: The Washington Wizards are …

Wizards’ Bradley Beal trade talks heat up: Which players could deals with Heat and Suns include?
1 year, 6 months ago

Wizards’ Bradley Beal trade talks heat up: Which players could deals with Heat and Suns include?

New York Times  

The Washington Wizards, as The Athletic’s Shams Charania reported earlier Saturday, are seriously contemplating trade offers for three-time All-Star guard Bradley Beal from the Miami Heat and Phoenix Suns. Phoenix would send center Deandre Ayton and additional cap filler or include future Hall of Fame point guard Chris Paul and Landry Shamet to the Wizards for Beal. Beal negotiated a …

Clippers free agency: What can LA offer Russell Westbrook? Could Chris Paul return?
1 year, 6 months ago

Clippers free agency: What can LA offer Russell Westbrook? Could Chris Paul return?

New York Times  

The final full week of spring is here, and, with it, the last week of the 2022-23 NBA season. The only way for the Clippers to offer Westbrook more than that would be by clearing enough space under the second apron to be able to use the taxpayer midlevel exception, which is both extremely difficult and also not likely worth …

Suns weighing options for Chris Paul’s future - reports
1 year, 7 months ago

Suns weighing options for Chris Paul’s future - reports

The Hindu  

Phoenix Suns’ front office is engaged in talks with Chris Paul to determine the best course of action for the veteran point guard and his future with the team, ESPN and The Athletic reported on Wednesday. Turner Sports reported earlier Wednesday that the Suns planned to waive Paul, but according to ESPN and The Athletic, Phoenix was still weighing its …

NBA: Phoenix Suns’ Chris Paul ruled out for Game 3 against Denver Nuggets
1 year, 8 months ago

NBA: Phoenix Suns’ Chris Paul ruled out for Game 3 against Denver Nuggets

The Hindu  

The Phoenix Suns won’t have star point guard Chris Paul available when it tries to cut into its 2-0 deficit to the Denver Nuggets in its Western Conference semifinal series in Phoenix on Friday night. Paul left Game 2 on Monday night with a left groin injury, and previous reports indicated he might not be available until Game 6, which …

NBA Playoffs: Suns concerned after latest Chris Paul injury
1 year, 8 months ago

NBA Playoffs: Suns concerned after latest Chris Paul injury

The Hindu  

Phoenix Suns point guard Chris Paul might not be ready to return anytime soon from the groin injury that knocked him out of Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals at Denver on Monday night. Phoenix fell behind 2-0 in the best-of-seven series in a 97-87 loss to the Nuggets on Monday night, finishing the game without Paul in the …

NBA: Michael Jordan has picked the PERFECT time to sell the Charlotte Hornets
1 year, 9 months ago

NBA: Michael Jordan has picked the PERFECT time to sell the Charlotte Hornets

Daily Mail  

For the second time in his illustrious life, Michael Jordan is divesting from an NBA team. Forbes now values the whole club at $1.7 billion, which is just 27th among NBA teams, but a roughly 443-percent increase from 2010, when Jordan bought media mogul Bob Johnson's 65-percent stake for $275 million. The team has only two playoff berths in his …

As Lakers stumble early, Russell Westbrook trade possibilities linger: Shams’ Inside Pass Notebook
2 years, 2 months ago

As Lakers stumble early, Russell Westbrook trade possibilities linger: Shams’ Inside Pass Notebook

New York Times  

We are one week into the NBA season and teams across the league are still working on finding their footing on and off the floor. Off to an 0-3 start, the Lakers will be a pivotal team in this season’s trade market because the expectations are the franchise will continue to scan options using Russell Westbrook’s expiring $47 million deal …

NBA: Suspended Sarver says he’s decided to sell Suns, Mercury
2 years, 3 months ago

NBA: Suspended Sarver says he’s decided to sell Suns, Mercury

The Hindu  

Robert Sarver says he has started the process of selling the Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury, a move that comes only eight days after he was suspended by the NBA over workplace misconduct including racist speech and hostile behavior toward employees. An independent report that was commissioned by the NBA last November and took about 10 months to complete found …

Why the NBA killed the Chris Paul trade to Lakers and preferred the Clippers
3 years ago

Why the NBA killed the Chris Paul trade to Lakers and preferred the Clippers

LA Times  

By the afternoon of Dec. 8, 2011, the NBA was just emerging from a 161-day lockout, with months of negotiations between team owners and players producing a ratified, 10-year collective bargaining agreement. Acting in its role as the interim owner of the New Orleans Hornets, the NBA that night did not allow a three-team trade the Hornets had constructed that …

Chris Paul lets us in on how he’s still balling for the Suns, and why you just don’t know him if you are surprised
3 years, 8 months ago

Chris Paul lets us in on how he’s still balling for the Suns, and why you just don’t know him if you are surprised

New York Times  

Everyone in the room knew Chris Paul didn’t want to be there. “Oh, it’s real funny,” said Paul, who had never lived separate from his wife, Jada, and their two young kids to that point of his career. “There’s a lot of guys who I came in the league with who don’t play in the league anymore, so I don’t …

NBA: Phoenix Suns snap up Chris Paul in blockbustre trade with Oklahoma City Thunder
4 years, 1 month ago

NBA: Phoenix Suns snap up Chris Paul in blockbustre trade with Oklahoma City Thunder

Firstpost  

Under the deal, Paul and Abdel Nader will head to the Suns in exchange for Kelly Oubre, Ricky Rubio, Ty Jerome and Jalen Lecque. Oklahoma City will also receive a 2022 first-round draft pick Los Angeles: Ten-time All-Star Chris Paul is joining the Phoenix Suns from the Oklahoma City Thunder as part of a blockbustre deal that sends four players …

NBA: All-Star guard Chris Paul sent to Suns in blockbuster trade
4 years, 1 month ago

NBA: All-Star guard Chris Paul sent to Suns in blockbuster trade

The Hindu  

Chris Paul holds a $44 million option for the 2021-22 season, a massive payday that may have kept some teams from trying to trade for the All-Star point guard. The trade sending Paul to the Suns from Oklahoma City was completed Monday night, a blockbuster to start what could be a wild few days of NBA transactions before training camps …

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