The Greatness of Chris Paul: Told by JJ Redick, Devin Booker, Steph Curry & More

The Old Man and the Three

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4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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With Chris Paul announcing that he will be retiring after this NBA season, we decided to pull together our favorite CP3 stories from both “The Old Man and the Three” and “The Young Man and the Three” from over the years that help showcase his legendary career.

In this episode, hear from JJ Redick, Devin Booker, Steph Curry, Jayson Tatum, Chris Paul himself, and more!

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0:00.0	Welcome back to The Young Man in the Three, as always presented by 342 Productions and our friends at Amazon Wondering Media.
0:23.0	Today's special Thanksgiving episode is a little bit of a different type of app.
0:26.8	Friend of the show in 21-year-vette, Chris Paul announced he was retiring this week.
0:30.6	We wanted to honor CP, as always.
0:33.2	He's been so good to us by putting together a special compilation of some of our favorite Chris stories and moments from both the OM3 and the YM3 years.
0:42.3	He was one of our first guests with JJ and I back in 2020.
0:45.7	And he's been on, you know, sort of constantly throughout both versions of the show.
0:51.6	We have a lot of Chris stories that we've gone through over the years
0:54.7	and we've sort of taken the time to compile our favorite ones for today. Here in this episode
1:00.0	from JJ, Tatum, Devin Booker, Rondo, way more. There's never been a player like Chris. He'll be on
1:06.7	the show soon enough to add to this group. But until then, we felt this compilation could do it justice.
1:12.2	We'll be back next week with a brand new team episode.
1:14.8	We've got a bunch.
1:16.1	We're taping over the next week that we're going to roll out
1:18.5	through December, including a few with some of the
1:20.6	hotter teams in the league.
1:22.3	Until then, have a great Thanksgiving
1:24.2	and enjoy the Chris Paul compilation.
1:30.2	From an episode JJ did with Devin Booker in March 2024.
1:34.5	One of the other greats you played with was Chris Paul, who I referenced earlier.
1:41.6	And, you know, Chris and I had such a great relationship. He co-signed them signing me in free agency to Doc. When Doc had just got the job, we had to do a sign-in-trade. They had to give up Bledsoe. Like it was, you know, Bledsoe was a young player in his rookie contract. It was a big deal to give him up. So Chris co-signed it. It was like, yeah, if you can go get JJ, go get him. And I saw him at the press conference. And it was just kind of like, hey, you know, I wasn't sure like how he was going to react. I hadn't really talked to him. But we exchanged numbers. So a month later, I was living in Austin at the time. a month later, I drove down to Houston to go to Brandon Bass's wedding, who was a teammate
2:22.3	of mine in a couple different places actually.
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