Chris Paul Passes Jason Kidd for Second on the NBA All-Time Assists List

Plant-based point guard Chris Paul has passed Jason Kidd for second on the NBA's all-time assists list, on Sunday, December 8 with the San Antonio Spurs. Only John Stockton has more.

Paul went past Kidd's 12,091 career assists in his 20th NBA season, his career record confirms. Three weeks earlier, against the Los Angeles Lakers on November 15, he became only the third player to reach 12,000 assists. At 39 he is still starting for the Spurs, whom he joined in July on a one-year deal so he could keep playing big minutes.

Paul went plant-based in 2019 after working on the documentary The Game Changers, and he has been a Beyond Meat ambassador ever since. He first made the change "for performance purposes", he told GQ, as quoted by VegNews, but once he saw how his body changed and how he felt, "it was for life". Before the switch, he said, his body ached too much to run around with his kids.

I’m not saying going plant-based is for everybody but for me, that was one of the first things I focused on. To play the amount of games and minutes that I’ve played and still feel good is a win for me.

His staples include plant-based scrambles, Beyond sausage and chef-prepared dinners of beans, grains and vegetables. Twenty seasons in, he's still out-thinking defenders half his age.

We've followed Paul since he went plant-based after working on The Game Changers. He was named to his 10th All-Star Game in 2020, led Phoenix to his first NBA Finals in 2021 and led the NBA in assists in 2022.

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