Name: Chris Paul Unexpectedly Dropped by Clippers Amid Challenges
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Description: Chris Paul's sudden exit from the Clippers, spurred by internal strife, caught both him and the fans off guard. Another chapter on a brutal season for LA.

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Well, in a surprising move overnight, Chris Paul posted on Instagram just after 3 a.m. Eastern time that the Clippers informed him that he's no longer on the team. He was actually sent on a plane back to LA from Atlanta, where the Clippers will play on Wednesday night. So let's bring in FOS reporter Colin Sellau for more. So Colin, what do we know about why Chris Paul is off the team right now? We don't know much is actually the answer there. President of the Clippers, Lawrence Frank said that he want or reiterated that. It's not uh Chris Paul who's to blame for the team's slow start to the season. Clippers are 5 and 16 and have the second worst record in the Western Conference. It's not Chris Paul's fault, according to Lawrence Frank, but that's pretty much. All we know, what we do know is that a lot of other things are happening to a freefalling organization, right? They're 2 months removed from a Pablo Torre report about um salary cap circumvention, alleged salary cap circumvention, um surrounding Kawhi Leonard and owner Steve Ballmer is now involved in a lawsuit uh from former um investors in aspiration. We know that and we know that the team has struggled to start the season on court, and we also know that they will likely not have their draft pick, which could be a first pick in the draft. They are currently, uh, would have a top 5 pick or top 5 odds for the first pick, and that would go to the 21-1 Oklahoma City Thunder, another, you know, result of that. Infamous trade now that got them Paul George and ultimately Kawhi Leonard, but they gave up Shay Gius Alexander. Yeah, and the Oklahoma City Thunder could have, I think, almost 4 1st round picks in this upcoming NBA draft. So how is this going to work with the Clippers from a salary cap perspective? How much are they going to be able to sort of pay out his contract? How is this going to sort of work with the roster? Yeah, so it's interesting. We have the salary cap experts coming out, um, the Bobby Marks of the world, the Keith Smiths of the world, essentially saying that, well, first of all, Chris Paul signed a one year $3.6 million minimum contract, veteran minimum contract in July. He is not eligible to be traded until December 15th, so that's still a couple of weeks from now. But the problem is that the Clippers are um hard capped, well, theoretically hard capped to the first apron. Um, they can't necessarily waive him and sign another player because of that. Um, so they're probably going to look for trade options first and foremost. But trading a 40 year old on a minimum deal who has already said that he's gonna retire at the end of the season might not be very enticing, um, so it's likely that they could also explore a buyout, but Keith Smith also um indicated that a buyout might not be an option just because minimum contracts don't normally get bought out. So we might see this kind of either maybe one team just takes a swing and offers maybe second round pick for CP3 or um. We see this kind of play into January, uh, when it's more likely that there's gonna be a little bit more flexibility from um the from the Clippers. They might need to wait for CP3's contract to kind of prorate into this first apron. Yeah, I'm glad you're mentioning what maybe comes next here because as you mentioned, Chris Paul already said that this is gonna be his last NBA season. Do you expect him maybe to play at all this year or have we basically seen the end of him in his playing career? I mean, that's a question that I think Chris Paul is probably be sitting down and maybe it's either a flight or in his, in his house right now thinking about because I'm sure he thought that, you know, he would be ending his career with a team that he's considered the greatest player probably in their franchise's history, and that was the one bright spot they had this year was that they could retire or be in the retirement tour of CP3, 1 of the greatest point guards in NBA history, and now they don't have him. And I'm sure he thought that was the case when he signed with the team in uh July. So I think Chris Paul is probably weighing that option and if the organization is um is willing to do right by him, then they probably talk to him about where he'd want to go, but considering what's happening right now, I don't know if that's gonna be the case.

Chris Paul Unexpectedly Dropped by Clippers Amid Challenges

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