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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Chris Paul declined an offer from the Los Angeles Clippers on July 1 to re-sign with the team for three years and a reported $60 million, according to Kurt Helin of NBCSports.com. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But it may be a strategic business move from Paul to negotiate a more lucrative deal with the Clippers than an indication the All-Star point guard is interested in going elsewhere:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If he plays out this season, becomes a free agent and then re-signs with the Clippers he can get a five-year, $105 million contract. It is one of the quirks of the new CBA that it is in the financial interest of players to become free agents and re-sign with the same team rather than to just sign an extension with their team.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But as Frank Isola of the &lt;em&gt;New York Daily News&lt;/em&gt; tweeted on Sunday, it is believed by many NBA executives that Paul hasn't lost sight of playing in New York for the Knicks, a team currently pursuing Steve Nash as a mentor to rising star Jeremy Lin. Paul is set to make $17.7 million next season and then will become a free agent, if he doesn't sign an extension with the Clippers, on July 1 2013.\nhttps://twitter.com/FisolaNYDN/status/219432677051334656&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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