{"id":472698,"date":"2025-12-04T08:35:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=472698"},"modified":"2025-12-04T08:35:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:35:20","slug":"harden-leonard-shocked-by-chris-paul-clippers-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/harden-leonard-shocked-by-chris-paul-clippers-split\/","title":{"rendered":"Harden, Leonard \u201cshocked\u201d by Chris Paul-Clippers split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1131\" data-end=\"1423\"><strong data-start=\"1131\" data-end=\"1147\">James Harden<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1152\" data-end=\"1169\">Kawhi Leonard<\/strong> said they were \u201cshocked\u201d when they woke up to the news that the <strong data-start=\"1234\" data-end=\"1249\">LA Clippers<\/strong> had decided to part ways with <strong data-start=\"1280\" data-end=\"1294\">Chris Paul<\/strong>.<br data-start=\"1295\" data-end=\"1298\" \/>The move followed a three-hour late-night meeting between team president <strong data-start=\"1371\" data-end=\"1389\">Lawrence Frank<\/strong> and Paul at the hotel in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1425\" data-end=\"1748\">Sources told ESPN that Paul and <strong data-start=\"1457\" data-end=\"1471\">Tyronn Lue<\/strong> had not been on speaking terms for weeks, with his hard-edged leadership style viewed as disruptive by the organization.<br data-start=\"1592\" data-end=\"1595\" \/>Lue, however, defended him: \u201cWe\u2019re not 5-16 because of CP. 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I didn\u2019t want to see it end like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1750\" data-end=\"2083\">For now, both sides are in a holding pattern: Paul has been sent back to Los Angeles, can\u2019t be traded before <strong data-start=\"1859\" data-end=\"1870\">Dec. 15<\/strong>, and a waiver is complicated by the <strong data-start=\"1907\" data-end=\"1922\">first apron<\/strong> hard cap and roster rules.<br data-start=\"1949\" data-end=\"1952\" \/>According to ESPN, the 12-time All-Star and Clippers icon is expected to <strong data-start=\"2025\" data-end=\"2061\">retire at the end of this season<\/strong>, his 21st in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2085\" data-end=\"2157\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Harden and Kawhi Leonard said they were \u201cshocked\u201d when they woke up to the news that the LA Clippers had decided to part ways with Chris Paul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":410304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-472698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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