{"id":509724,"date":"2026-08-13T12:18:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=509724"},"modified":"2026-08-13T12:18:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:18:53","slug":"lakers-chris-paul-emerges-as-a-name-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lakers-chris-paul-emerges-as-a-name-to-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers: Chris Paul emerges as a name to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2139\" data-end=\"2254\">The <strong data-start=\"2143\" data-end=\"2165\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong> appear to be strengthening their long-term organizational structure under new ownership.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2256\" data-end=\"2611\">According to <strong data-start=\"2269\" data-end=\"2294\">ESPN&#8217;s Dave McMenamin<\/strong>, head coach <strong data-start=\"2307\" data-end=\"2320\">JJ Redick<\/strong> has already agreed to a contract extension following his rookie season on the Lakers&#8217; bench. The new deal reportedly aligns with the contract timeline of general manager <strong data-start=\"2491\" data-end=\"2506\">Rob Pelinka<\/strong>, reinforcing the franchise&#8217;s commitment to its current leadership.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2613\" data-end=\"2668\">Another intriguing development involves <strong data-start=\"2653\" data-end=\"2667\">Chris Paul<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2670\" data-end=\"2842\">Speaking on ESPN, <strong data-start=\"2688\" data-end=\"2708\">Ramona Shelburne<\/strong> identified the recently retired point guard as someone to watch because of his close relationship with new Lakers owner <strong data-start=\"2829\" data-end=\"2841\">Bob Iger<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"2844\" data-end=\"3125\">\n<p data-start=\"2846\" data-end=\"3125\">&#8220;There&#8217;s a couple names you should pay attention to: Chris Paul, a very close friend of Bob Iger&#8217;s. He&#8217;s sort of a mentor to Chris Paul. Chris recently retired. He&#8217;s available, an incredible basketball mind. I don&#8217;t know what that means for him, but I expect they&#8217;ll be talking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"3127\" data-end=\"3416\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">While no official role has been discussed publicly, Shelburne&#8217;s comments have fueled speculation that Paul could eventually join the Lakers in a front-office or advisory capacity as <a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/los-angeles-lakers-set-for-record-sale-worth-more-than-12-billion\/\"><strong data-start=\"3309\" data-end=\"3317\">Iger<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"3322\" data-end=\"3338\">Josh Kushner<\/strong><\/a> begin shaping the franchise&#8217;s next era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redick is reportedly under contract alongside GM Rob Pelinka, while new owner Bob Iger could explore a role for recently retired Chris Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":509723,"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":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-509724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/Chris-Paul-FIBA.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509724","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=509724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509724"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=509724"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=509724"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=509724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}