


Time is ticking for Chris Paul to finally win an NBA championship — and he’s not the only one hearing about it.
The point guard’s 10-year-old daughter, Camryn, is fending off chirps about it during the school day, her dad said.
“My daughter is the sweetest soul you will ever meet in your life, right? But she is at that age now where in school, kids talk crazy to her,” Paul said on the Pivot podcast. “She had a little boy at school that said some reckless stuff to her like: ‘Your daddy ain’t never gonna win no championship’ right?”
Paul, 38, is one of the top talents in the league that has yet to win it all after 17 seasons.
And now where he will play next could be in question after the Suns waived him on Wednesday after three seasons.
He is still guaranteed $15.8 million of the $30.8 million left on his two-year contract.
Last season, his third with the Phoenix Suns, Paul’s team fell 4-2 in the Western Conference semifinals to the Denver Nuggets, who are now three wins away from the 2023 title.
The Suns did reach the first NBA Finals of Paul’s career in 2021, but it ended with out a ring.
Phoenix held a 2-0 series lead over the Bucks, only to drop the next four games and hand Milwaukee its second title in team history.
It’s left Paul’s daughter having to deal with classmates’ taunts about her father’s lack of a ring.
“It’s tough on me, but I think it’s probably even harder for the people around me, right?” Paul said.
He later made it clear in a post to his Instagram Stories that his daughter was not being bullied.
“Listen, kids will always be kids and my daughter was not being bullied,” Paul wrote. “It’s definitely not that serious and trust me she is perfectly fine LOL … knock it off!!”
While the guard is a 12-time All-Star, four-time All-NBA 1st Team player and has led the league in assists five times, there’s a big blank spot on his NBA resume waiting for “champion” to be inked in.
You’ve got to imagine, Paul doesn’t just want to win for himself, but for his family — to give his daughter something to talk about in the lunchroom.