- I shoulda had this on right now, to tell you the truth.
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Hi, what's up, GQ Sports.
I'm Chris Paul and these are my essentials.
Yep, so this item right here is my lumbar roll,
so I take it everywhere that I go.
Tell the you the truth, I should have it on right now.
I always wear it and it literally just goes like this
behind my back and so when I sit down,
what it does is it makes sure that I keep my posture right.
- [Interviewer] You put other guys on the team onto that?
- They see me with it, you know what I mean,
but it's something that they might say that I do
'cause I'm old, but I'm cool with it.
Works for me.
Right here, this is Bicycle.
Needs to Bicycle, too, it's a deck of cards,
so I always got a deck of cards with me,
just in case somebody wanna play Guts,
whatever, whatever, if you wanna play Aunts,
whatever card game is,
I play cards.
There's not usually a day that goes by
that I don't play some form of cards, so.
On our team, our crew that plays is me,
Dennis Schroder, and Gallinari,
Danilo Gallinari, and we play every flight.
I'm somewhat of a bad flyer, so the way
that I make myself feel like I'm not
on the plane is I play cards.
Gotta have a deck of cards.
This right here is watermelon water.
I mean, you got cherry, strawberry,
all these different flavors.
If it's not this, it's regular water.
I'm always trying to make sure I'm hydrated
'cause as much as we fly and the games that we play,
day in and day out, it's very easy to become dehydrated,
so, like I said, this might be a old man thing
or whatever, but one of my essentials,
I gotta have it.
The next item is a book.
I'm constantly reading, always trying to learn.
This gets me off of my phone at times.
I always got some type of book, no matter what.
Even sometimes I may get too busy
and don't get a chance to read it,
but I always have it with me for just in case.
You can learn a few things from him.
His book was all right, you know what I mean.
I'm just kidding, it's a good read, it's a good read.
This is my watch case.
When I'm traveling, I'll just bring like,
four or five with me.
I feel naked without a watch on.
- [Interviewer] What's your top three in your collection?
- My wife got me this Patek for my birthday two years ago.
This Aquanaut right here was a gift to myself
that I'm a real big fan of,
and this AP right here was a gift from a teammate.
You know, I mean, I just always have to have a watch on,
so I definitely don't leave home without this.
Now, this right here, this sanctuary right here is
like my little heaven right here.
Now, I will not go anywhere without these essentials.
This right here is 'cause my family lives in LA
and I'm in Oklahoma and I actually had
a iPhone 7 up until I moved to Oklahoma
in, like, September, October, 'cause my wife told me
that I better have a phone that works,
so I gotta have this so I can FaceTime my crew.
My iPad 'cause I watch shows.
I watch all the shows that come on.
I'm watching "Sons of Anarchy" right now.
When I get done with that, I think it's on to "You,"
so this and my AirPods and all this, gotta have it.
So this item right here is a hat, like a dad hat.
Like, I don't leave home without a hat.
I would probably have a hat on right now
if I could, but just, literally, I always got a hat on.
Could I hoop in a hat?
Absolutely.
I'd have to turn it backwards.
- [Interviewer] Do you prefer the dad hat to the fitted?
- I do, it's crazy 'cause fitteds used to be a real thing,
like you used to live in lids, trying to get it fitted,
but what's dope about that dad hats now, too,
is you can put any type of messaging on it,
whether it be your logo, whether it be something
like be cool, be something like that.
It's just another way to express yourself.
The next one that I won't leave home without
or do anything without is my necklace.
I mean, it works with my sweater,
my A and T sweater right now,
but sometimes I just always have it tucked in.
Even if you see me shooting in pre-game warmups,
like early before the game, I always got this on,
I don't take this off ever until I'm about to play.
This owl right here represents my family,
so a lot of people see it and you just see a owl,
but on this eye, this is the Taurus, and that's my sign.
This eye is a Leo for my daughter.
In the middle, the wavy lines, that's Aquarius
for my wife, and at the bottom, that's Gemini for my son.
So you put it all together, this is my crew.
This right here is a lapel pin.
I love to dress up at times and lapels are very subtle,
but, like, cool and, like, classy little touches
that you can put on your jacket.
- [Interviewer] Do you have a collection of lapel pins?
- The collection, some of them stem
from a lot of antiques from Courtney's grandparents.
Is that right?
Right, yeah.
So it's actually dope because sometimes it can be pins,
you know what I mean, it can just be like a little pin.
We've gotten very creative with our lapel pins.
This is one of the dope lapel pins
that you can put on your jacket.
This right here became essential
within the past year or two and these are slouch socks.
Now, some people call them aerobic socks
or whatever they are, but I started wearing 'em
within the past two years a lot more,
like we did when we was in high school.
It was my wife's idea, but they just cool socks
that I wear with jeans, sweatpants, I wear 'em with shorts.
I always keep a pair of fresh ones with me.
I could show you a picture from me playing
high school basketball with a pair of these socks on.
Thanks for checking out my essential items, GQ.
Thanks for watching.