{"id":27841,"date":"2026-04-18T21:16:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=27841"},"modified":"2026-04-18T21:16:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:16:54","slug":"chris-paul-trolls-clippers-after-la-loses-in-play-in-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=27841","title":{"rendered":"Chris Paul trolls Clippers after LA loses in play-in tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>At least one ex-Clipper relished the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"77a8546f-24bf-a333-8161-bf9f75396c49\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/gs\/golden-state-warriors\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> ending the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"083a58a6-b849-3501-e67b-059290d12295\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lac\/la-clippers\">LA Clippers<\/a>&#8216; season in the play-in tournament Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47316812\/inside-ugly-chris-paul-la-clippers-divorce-nba-season-disaster-end-kawhi-leonard-era\" class=\"img-link\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>After the Clippers&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/game\/_\/gameId\/401866756\/warriors-clippers\">126-121 loss<\/a> to the Warriors, Chris Paul reacted to LA&#8217;s season-ending defeat in petty fashion on his Instagram story. He shared a viral meme of someone who posted they attended their &#8220;biggest haters&#8221; funeral to make sure they were dead.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, Paul was seemingly referring to the Clippers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXLkCLmDglH\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\"background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;margin: 1px;max-width:540px;min-width:326px;padding:0;width:99.375%;width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px);width:calc(100% - 2px)\" \/><p>\nHe&#8217;s not the first NBA star to use the meme &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ca1685ed-b799-53e4-7924-e58ea6eb8f3a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-76ers\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> center <a data-player-guid=\"89410119-0011-5ba0-efed-7b0b6c756c23\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3059318\/joel-embiid\">Joel Embiid<\/a> posted the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JoelEmbiid\/status\/1491844094343237632\">same photo<\/a> when the team traded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3907387\/ben-simmons\">Ben Simmons<\/a> in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The future Hall of Famer began the season with the Clippers, where he played for six seasons. He cited a desire to play his 21st NBA season near his family and, after signing him, Clippers president of basketball operations Lawrence Frank <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/45787206\/chris-paul-reuniting-clippers-21st-nba-season\">called Paul<\/a> &#8220;one of the most impactful players ever to wear a Clippers uniform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, the partnership was short-lived. In stunning fashion, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47187141\/clippers-send-cp3-home-road-trip-say-no-longer-team\">Clippers announced<\/a> in the early hours of Dec. 3 that Paul was no longer with the team. ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania then reported that Paul and head coach Ty Lue were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47190462\/sources-chris-paul-ty-lue-speaking-terms-ahead-pg-ouster\">not on speaking terms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Paul said he was &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47260600\/chris-paul-peace-everything-clippers-ouster\">at peace with everything<\/a>&#8221; on Dec. 9 and didn&#8217;t suit up for another team this season.<\/p>\n<p>LA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47829886\/sources-clippers-chris-paul-lands-raptors-3-team-trade\">eventually traded<\/a> the 12-time NBA All-Star to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"5a9c33b8-63fd-ff34-a833-925fe89320a6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-raptors\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> at the trade deadline. Days later, Paul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47920879\/chris-paul-announces-retirement-nba-21-seasons\">announced his retirement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Wednesday&#8217;s loss, LA had a 13-point lead during the final quarter, but Golden State stormed back to eventually go up for good with 50.4 seconds remaining &#8212; leaving Warriors fans and presumably Paul cheering.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\">\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/48500400\/chris-paul-trolls-la-clippers-nba-play-tournament-loss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least one ex-Clipper relished the Golden State Warriors ending the LA Clippers&#8216; season in the play-in tournament Wednesday night. Editor&#8217;s Picks After the Clippers&#8217; 126-121 loss to the Warriors, Chris Paul reacted to LA&#8217;s season-ending defeat in petty fashion on his Instagram story. He shared a viral meme of someone who posted they attended &#8230; <a title=\"Chris Paul trolls Clippers after LA loses in play-in tournament\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=27841\" aria-label=\"Read more about Chris Paul trolls Clippers after LA loses in play-in tournament\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Chris-Paul-trolls-Clippers-after-LA-loses-in-play-in-tournament.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27843,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27841\/revisions\/27843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}