For Chris Paul, Christmas is a game day.

But because it is the biggest holiday of the year, there will be one thing different about it: His cheering section is going to be full of very familiar faces.

“My gift to myself every year is to bring in my family from North Carolina,” he said. For his teammates, Paul joked that he would get them all Paul jerseys. And for the team’s new owner, Steve Ballmer, he pointed out the only thing he wants won’t come for a few months: “He’d probably like a championship,” he said. “Me and him both.”

Paul spoke to For The Win for the launch of his latest State Farm commercial. He’s joined in this one by Sue Bird, John Stockton, Damian Lillard and Stephen Curry — who he is facing off against in the late night Christmas game.

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“When I came into the NBA there were a few records (I was) hoping to break … and two of them were the all-time assists and all-time steals records,” he said, pointing to two of Stockton’s. “I definitely talked to him about it … he’s very humble.”

The commercial was filmed in the summer. Bird said despite being a group of highly competitive point guards, they stayed mostly away from talking about hoops.

“For the most part we were talking about how hot we were because it was a really, really hot LA day,” she said.