Chris Paul

Honestly, Chris Paul might be the most cerebral player I've ever watched run a basketball game. At 6-foot-nothing in NBA terms, he had no business becoming one of the greatest point guards of all time — and yet here we are, "the Point God" leading the league in assists five times and in steals a record six times. What I love about CP3 is that he never needed to be the flashiest guy on the court; he just needed to be the smartest, and that was usually enough. From Wake Forest to the Hornets to a decade of chasing a ring across half the league, he played every game until his retirement like a chess match where he already knew three moves ahead. That 2021 Finals run with Phoenix felt like the whole basketball world holding its breath for him. A genuinely special player.

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Name (English)

Chris Paul

Name (Japanese)

クリス・ポール

Reading

くりす・ぽーる

Born

May 6, 1985 (age 41)

Origin

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

Height

183 cm

Occupation

basketball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Ox

High school

West Forsyth High School

University

Wake Forest University

Awards & achievements

• 2006 NBA Rookie of the Year Award
• 2006 NBA All-Rookie Team
• 2006 Best Breakthrough Athlete ESPY Award
• 2008 All-NBA Team
• 2009 NBA All-Defensive Team
• 2012 All-NBA Team
• 2012 NBA All-Defensive Team
• 2013 NBA All-Defensive Team

• Official sitehttps://www.chrispaul3.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/cp3/
• Xhttps://x.com/CP3
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Paul
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46040

Tags

• North Carolina
• basketball player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.