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What’s next for Chris Paul?

He has been sent away from the Clippers (something handled sloppily), but what comes next? NBA insider Chris Haynes texted with Paul and got this response:

“I’m just staying ready. I’m hooping right now. I don’t know what’s next. I’m still scarred by it all. Still processing everything. But I’m staying ready.”

Haynes also got CP3’s thought process behind his cryptic Instagram story of the definition of “leeway.”

The reality of what is next for Chris Paul is a little more complex.

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While he is away from the team, the Clippers have not released him and reportedly are working with him on a potential trade. However, league sources told NBC Sports that teams with interest in Paul are going to sit back and wait for him to be released, then sign him as a free agent rather than giving up anything in a deal. The Clippers are up against their first-apron hard cap and can’t release Paul and replace him with another veteran minimum contract. LA can’t afford that until January (they could release him and promote two-way player Kobe Sanders to a regular contract, staying below that line). Beyond that, Paul signed in Los Angeles to be close to his family, he’s not likely to want to go far away to end his career (there is one other team in Los Angeles, but it also is up against a first apron hard cap and is not in a position to bring anyone in for a while, and when they do an older backup guard is not likely the need). It will be interesting to see which teams step up to try to sign him once they can.

Paul may need to be hooping and staying ready on his own for a while.

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The Skins Game returns this week for the first time since 2008. Though the lineup of players doesn’t match the inaugural 1983 edition (featuring Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Arnold Palmer and Gary Player), there is one wrinkle that should add some interest: Ryder Cup rivalries.

Keegan Bradley, the 2025 U.S. Ryder Cup captain, will compete for the first time since before his team’s devastating loss at Bethpage Black. And the two European players most responsible for his defeat will be his competitors.

That led Bradley to joke about his fear that trash talk from his European masters could cause him to “curl up into a ball” during a press conference promoting the event.

Here’s what you need to know.

Skins Game returns with Ryder Cup lineup

For the first time in nearly 20 years, golf fans will get to watch top pros play a big-money skins game live on TV after Thanksgiving this year. The Capitol One Skins Game, as it’s officially known, kicks off Friday, November 28, at 9 a.m. ET.

‘This effing event’: Keegan Bradley questions Ryder Cup future in first comments since Bethpage

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Kevin Cunningham

Joining Bradley will be one of his 2025 Ryder Cup players, Xander Schauffele. European Ryder Cup stars Tommy Fleetwood and Shane Lowry, who is subbing in for an injured Justin Thomas, round out the four-player field.

The match will go down at Panther National in Florida, which was designed by Thomas and Jack Nicklaus, and feature a traditional skins format plus a “reverse purse,” in which all players start with $1 million and contribute to the pots to try and take each other’s money.

While all four competitors are popular players, the main draw might end up being lingering Ryder Cup animosities. At least that was the main topic on the players’ minds in the lead-up to the event.

Bradley, Lowry preview Skins Game trash talk

On Thursday, the competitors took part in a pre-match virtual press conference, and jabs about the Ryder Cup were at the forefront.

That’s not surprising given what unfolded at Bethpage in September. Bradley’s U.S. team didn’t just get beat on home soil by the Europeans. They did so amid a chaotic atmosphere in which European players were harassed by unruly fans.

“I won’t have 50,000 New Yorkers in my ear,” Lowry joked during the press conference.

Tempers flared. Fans clashed. This Ryder Cup went to the brink

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Dylan Dethier

Lowry, who secured the final half point Europe needed to retain the Ryder Cup at Bethpage, was also quick to needle Bradley over his team’s loss.

“Keegan’s already paid me and Tommy [Fleetwood] extra to not talk about the Ryder Cup,” Lowry said.

But Bradley’s fears about trash talk aren’t focused on Lowry, instead it’s Fleetwood who is keeping Keegan up at night. Fleetwood is one of pro golf’s quintessential nice guys, and Bradley admitted seeing him trash talk might break him.

“If Tommy talked trash to me in a serious way, I would curl up in a ball. I’d be so scared,” Bradley joked. “That would be like horrifying.”

But there will be one big difference between the Skins Game and the Ryder Cup: instead of riding in cart as captain, Bradley will be letting his clubs do the talking at Panther National.

“I won’t have a walkie-talkie in my hand on Friday, I’ll have a golf club,” Bradley said. “Which is my chance to get back at these two maniacs down there.”

You can watch the 2025 Capitol One Skins Game on Friday via Amazon Prime.

University of Colorado head coach and Pro Football Hall of Fame cornerback Deion Sanders offered some fatherly advice to his son, Cleveland Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders, before undergoing surgery to alleviate blood clots this week.

In a video posted on Well Off Media’s YouTube account (beginning at the 16:35 mark), Deion strikes up a FaceTime conversation with Shedeur while in his hospital bed, awaiting surgery:

Deion stressed the importance of making the safe, smart play, saying, “Checkdown, checkdown, checkdown. Don’t be scared of that checkdown. Everybody else using it.”

Shedeur played four collegiate seasons under Deion with the first two being at FCS Jackson State and the final two being at Colorado.

Collectively, Shedeur posted a 36-14 record as the starter at the two schools, and in his final college campaign at Colorado, he completed 74.0 percent of his passes for 4,134 yards, 37 touchdowns and 10 interceptions en route to being named Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year.

Sanders was widely expected to be one of the first quarterbacks off the board and a likely first-round pick in the 2025 NFL draft, but he experienced one of the most shocking falls in recent memory, dropping all the way to the Browns at No. 144 overall in the fifth round.

At the start of training camp, Sanders was one of four quarterbacks battling for a roster spot in Cleveland, but through attrition, he is now up to No. 2 on the depth chart.

The Browns traded Kenny Pickett to the Las Vegas Raiders before the season started, and on Tuesday, Cleveland traded Joe Flacco to the Cincinnati Bengals.

Rookie third-round pick Dillon Gabriel took over as the Browns’ starting quarterback last week, and with Flacco out of the picture, Sanders has moved into the backup role by default.

It is unclear if or when Sanders will get a chance to see some game action this season, but he is now one injury or a couple of poor Gabriel performances away from getting on the field.

If and when that happens, Shedeur would perhaps be wise to take his Hall of Fame father’s advice on taking what the defense gives him.

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