Chris Paul is not done yet. At 40 years old, Paul feels he’s got something left to give, and whatever is left in his tank will likely be exhausted in helping the Los Angeles Clippers achieve the same glaring achievement that’s missing in his career — an NBA ring.

After a brief stopover with the San Antonio Spurs in the 2024-25 NBA season, Paul decided it was still not the right time to hang up his sneakers, as he put pen to paper for a one-year contract worth $3.63 million to return to a familiar environment. 

The Clippers are not getting the “old” CP3. Instead, they’re getting a real basketball senior, with immense wisdom but with faded abilities on the floor. Nevertheless, Paul has more to give, and could still contribute to a Clippers team that will not make him feel a stranger. After all, many of his teammates in his Clippers comeback are on the wrong side of 30, including the 35-year-old James Harden, who will be running it back with his former Houston Rockets teammate.

“It’s wild that you get this opportunity again after those two years and the success that we had,” the future Basketball Hall of Famer said during his Clippers introductory press conference on Tuesday, per Beth Harris of the Associated Press (h/t NBA).

“We definitely know we had unfinished business so we get a chance to see what’s going on here,” added the 12-time NBA All-Star.

Paul played for six seasons with the Clippers in his first tenure with them, and during that time, Los Angeles was a perennial contender for an NBA championship. After failing to reach that goal with the Clippers, Paul left LA in 2017 via a trade to Houston, where he formed a fiery backcourt duo with Harden. 

That tandem also did not result in an NBA championship, in part because of Houston’s 27-straight 3-point misses in Game 7 of the 2018 Western Conference Finals against Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors. 

Two years later, Paul was traded by the Rockets to the Phoenix Suns, with whom he came just two wins away from bagging that elusive NBA ring in 2021. Years later, Paul remains ringless, but by rekindling a partnership with an old basketball flame in his former stomping grounds, the Point God is hoping that he’ll finally get to the top at last.