{"id":210658,"date":"2021-04-14T17:13:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T15:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=210658"},"modified":"2021-04-14T17:13:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T15:13:19","slug":"phoenix-suns-guard-chris-paul-moves-to-5th-in-career-steals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/phoenix-suns-guard-chris-paul-moves-to-5th-in-career-steals\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns guard Chris Paul moves to 5th in career steals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A night after surpassing Scottie Pippen on the NBA\u2019s career steals list, Suns point guard Chris Paul passed up another Hall of Famer on Tuesday, climbing over Maurice Cheeks for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nba.com\/stats\/alltime-leaders\/\">fifth place<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">And he does it again folks!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CP3?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CP3<\/a> moves into 5th on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NBA<\/a>\u2019s all-time steals leaderboard!<\/p>\n<p>Keep climbing CP! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sKa6Fis4Aw\">pic.twitter.com\/sKa6Fis4Aw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Phoenix Suns (@Suns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Suns\/status\/1382188730006466560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Paul, playing for his fifth team in his 16th NBA season, had three steals in the Suns\u2019\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/mia-vs-phx-0022000827\">106-86 victory<\/a>\u00a0over the Heat. That gave him 2,311 for his career, one more than Cheeks had in 15 seasons from 1978 to 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Paul now sits behind Gary Payton, whose 2,445 steals are good for fourth. That\u2019s followed by Michael Jordan\u2019s 2,514 in third, second place Jason Kidd\u2019s 2,684 and John Stockton\u2019s NBA-record 3,265.<\/p>\n<p>The milestone comes less than a month after Paul became the sixth player in NBA history to total 10,000 career assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A night after passing Scottie Pippen, Paul moves past Maurice Cheeks for fifth on the NBA&#8217;s career steals list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":210657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-210658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/04\/Ey6FUuGVoAI_vnp.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210658"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=210658"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=210658"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=210658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}