On the court, Chris Paul was a force to be reckoned with, a fierce competitor, and one of the most talented, respected NBA players of all time. Off the court, he’s a father, husband, compassionate philanthropist and businessman, who has built a robust brand and made a huge difference in his community, all while creating a powerful legacy. He is greatly respected by his peers as a leader both in and outside of basketball.

After leaving Wake Forest University (who retired his jersey in March 2013) at the end of his sophomore year, Chris was chosen by the New Orleans Hornets as the fourth pick in the 2005 NBA draft, which led to NBA Rookie of the Year honors, and the first of his twelve All-Star selections.

Chris first joined the Los Angeles Clippers in 2011 becoming the face of the franchise and helped to lead the Clippers to their first ever Pacific Division title in 2013. After six years with the Clippers, Chris joined the Houston Rockets in 2017 and helped the team win a franchise-record 65 games in his debut season. Chris spent the 2024-25 season playing with the San Antonio Spurs where he played in and started 82 games – a remarkable feat ending the season turning age 40. He had previously played with the Golden State Warriors, Phoenix Suns, and Oklahoma City Thunder. In his final 21st NBA Season, Chris wore number 3 for the Los Angeles Clippers.

The Winston-Salem, North Carolina native is a four-time NBA First Team selection, a seven- time All NBA Defensive First Team selection, a twelve-time NBA All-Star, a four-time NBA assist leader, and a six-time NBA steals leader, who won MVP honors at the 2013 All-Star game. He is also a two-time gold medal winner with Team USA at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games. Chris and the Phoenix Suns became 2021 Western Conference champions and advanced to the 2021 NBA Finals where they competed against the Milwaukee Bucks. He ranks second place on the NBA all-time career assists and steals lists. He is the first player in league history to record 20,000 points and 11,000 assists in his career. He was named to the NBA’s 75th Anniversary team as one of the 75 greatest players in NBA history.

In 2021, Chris ended his tenure as President of the National Basketball Players Association, which began in August 2013. He played an instrumental role in making key decisions including the landmark decision to provide health insurance to retired players.

Chris currently serves on the Board of Directors for the NBPA Foundation and the Brotherhood Crusade. He is an Advisory Board Member for College Track Los Angeles and co-owner of The Basketball Tournament (TBT) and The Soccer Tournament (TST).

His memoir, Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court, is a New York Times best-selling powerful and unexpected story of family, faith, tragedy, and life's most important lessons.

Chris’s business partnerships and investments include the Jordan Brand, State Farm Insurance, AT&T TGL Golf and Jupiter Links, Angel City FC, TBT – The Basketball Tournament, Turner Impact Capital, PlayersTV, Good Eat’n, Koia, 1916 company, Koia, Greenfly, JustEgg, Buoy Hydration, Eastside Golf, Move Insoles, Umaro Foods, and more.

Chris teamed up with Turner Impact Capital to raise awareness for the importance of affordable housing for working-class families. He's also an investor in the Turner Multifamily Impact Fund, which aims to invest, preserve and enrich existing multifamily properties in densely populated, ethnically diverse, underserved urban communities.

Chris’s production company, Ohh Dip!!! Productions, creates content across multiple platforms. Ohh Dip!!! produced the three-part ESPN docuseries Chapter 3, which provides a behind-the- scenes look at Chris’s decision to leave the L.A. Clippers and join the Houston Rockets. Chris served as an executive producer of the ESPN Sports Emmy-nominated documentary, Crossroads, featuring a high school lacrosse team’s journey in overcoming adversity. He executive produced The Game Changers, an award-winning 2018 documentary about plant-based eating, and Quibi’s 2020 Blackballed, the inside story of Donald Sterling and the L.A. Clippers. He executive produced The Day Sports Stood Still, a documentary from director Antoine Fuqua and Imagine Documentaries about sports shutting down due to Covid-19 for HBO and streaming on HBO Max. Chris narrated the documentary, Big House, The Pearl & The Triumph of Winston-Salem State, which aired on the CBS Sports network. Chris appeared in a sports-themed episode of Nickelodeon’s animated show, Blaze and the Monster Machines. He executive produces the ESPN+ Why Not Us series including Why Not Us: NC Central Men's Basketball, Why Not Us: FAMU Football, Why Not Us: Southern Dance, Why Not Us: Howard Golf, and Why Not Us: Grambling Dance. In addition, he executive produced PlayersTV’s Front Office, a series featuring a behind the-scenes look at athletes making strategic investments in their fans’ business ideas. Chris joined the voice cast for the upcoming animated feature Sneaks, which centers around a pair of misplaced sneakers that are lost in New York City and must find a way to get back to their sole mates. Ohh Dip!!! co-produced Bloomberg Quicktake’s How I Got Here, an in-depth weekly one-on-one interview hosted by Paul and featuring guests from the various worlds he touches—sports, business, entertainment and politics.

In Spring 2025, Ohh Dip!!! partnered with Words + Pictures forming a joint venture to launch Ohh Dip!!! Entertainment, a new full-service media production company specializing in non-scripted and scripted content. The new venture aims to produce content across basketball, sports and broader entertainment culture and is backed by a substantial investment from Words + Pictures, which is led by founder and CEO Connor Schell and part of the North Road Company.

His CP3 Basketball Academy is a premier training academy in Winston Salem and Greensboro, NC. The Academy provides skill development, basketball education, and leadership opportunities for young athletes of all skill levels. Chris also hosts youth clinics and camps, as well as an elite camp for top high school and college students from around the country. Chris is an advocate for growing the game of basketball for females and recently added three CP3 Girls AAU teams to its successful organization, the CP3 Flame (ages 15, 16, 17).

In 2022, Chris became a minority owner of the Indian Premier League's Rajasthan Royals. In 2018, he became part owner of the Winston-Salem Dash, a minor league baseball team in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Chris hosted his inaugural Club 61 Leadership Alliance in the summer of 2019. The mission of the annual Club 61 is to provide experiences and opportunities for young adults to develop leadership skills.

Chris and his family established the Chris Paul Family Foundation in 2005, which continues to provide resources that enrich and strengthen underserved communities across the country. Leveling the playing field in education, the foundation provides technology opportunities for children in underserved communities across the United States. The foundation supports numerous organizations including the Boys & Girls Club, Shoes That Fit, Vision to Learn, the Brotherhood Crusade, Leaps n Boundz and Feed The Children.

The foundation donated $2.5 million to Wake Forest University to support their basketball program and transform the men's and women's basketball clubhouses with expanded and enhanced locker rooms, nutrition resources, and treatment areas. The new Chris Paul Locker Room for the men’s team is named in his honor.

The foundation’s impact in local communities has earned Chris the NBA Community Assist Award five times. He has also received the 2016 ESPYs “Humanitarian of the Year” award, the 2016 Mannie Jackson Human Spirit Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for his community efforts, and most recently the inaugural Kobe and Gigi Bryant Advocacy Award for his significant contributions to the advancement of girls' and women's basketball, and advocacy for the WNBA.

Chris continues to be a vocal champion of HBCUs and in December 2022, he finished the degree he started at Wake Forest, graduating from Winston-Salem State University. He also partnered with Harvard Business School to bring its Entertainment, Media and Sports program to North Carolina A&T and future HBCUs, creating the Special Topics in Management course to develop a pipeline for students pursuing careers in those industries. He has raised awareness through his HBCU Sneaker Tour and the sneakers were auctioned off with all of the proceeds donated to the men’s and women’s basketball programs of each school represented. He launched HBCU voting initiatives to encourage students to vote this past election. He partnered with Sour Patch Kids and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund to create The Mischief for Change Scholarship, a college scholarship fund with a $1 million commitment over the next five years for students attending HBCUs. The Chris Paul Basketball Academy hosted HBCU CON, an event for elite players from historically Black colleges and universities that will be offering instruction embedded with skill development from former and current NBA professionals, professional scouts, and training for male and female HBCU student-athletes aspiring to play professionally. In 2022, he was appointed to President Joe Biden's advisory board on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Chris continues to host the annual Chris Paul HBCU Tip-Off and HBCU Challenge in partnership with The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Together with Dwyane Wade and Carmelo Anthony, Chris launched the Social Change Fund United dedicated to investing in and supporting organizations focused on empowering communities of color and advocating for the human rights of all black lives.

Chris hosted Nickelodeon's 5th Annual Kids' Choice Sports Awards in 2018. He teamed up with Nickelodeon in Houston for Worldwide Day of Play, a nationwide initiative to promote active, playful lifestyles in today’s young generation.

Chris is a Co-Chair of When We All Vote, a new national, nonpartisan not-for-profit shaping the promise of democracy through voter registration and participation.

Chris is married to Jada Paul and they have two children; a daughter, Camryn, and a son, Chris II. They reside in Los Angeles, CA.