Chris Paul always uses his free time at home to ‘teach’ his son Chris Jr. in basketball skills, expecting him to take the NBA career footstep

While Chris Paul is excited to go back into the NBA, he is presently spending time with his family at home, where he is teaching his son Chris Jr. how to play the game better.

“My son loves the game so much.” Paul, 35, says his eleven-year-old son “absolutely adores it,” according to PEOPLE. “He knows every player and every team inside and out.” I have also been allowed to train him myself, something I have never been able to do previously because of this isolation.

We worked out together for four days, I guess, because he told me he was going to work out on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The Oklahoma City Thunder point guard goes on, “Therefore, it’s ironic that our most productive day was yesterday, given that he was furious and upset the other three days.” “Yesterday was really awesome and probably one of my favorite experiences during the whole quarantine,” the person said.

In addition to playing hoops, Paul and his family—wife Jada Paul and their 7-and-a-half-year-old daughter Camryn and son Chris Jr.—have kept an active lifestyle despite the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. They have, nevertheless, persisted in keeping their social distance.

“We are fortunate to have a weight room with weights and a treadmill,” the athlete says. Creating a circuit for my children is something I strive to do. For example, they might have to ride a bike for two minutes, then perform push-ups, sit-ups, and sprints.

“I believe they take pleasure in that. Paul elaborates, “I also try to get them to complete three circuits, because if they see [my wife and I] training, it inspires and motivates them to get going as well.”According to the father of two who spoke to PEOPLE, “the funniest part” of the experience was “watching my daughter come downstairs in her workout attire.”

“I believe I am not yet accustomed to that.”Regarding Camryn, Paul states that his youngest child “becomes extremely restless” during activities such as Zoom calls; therefore, Jada will occasionally instruct her to “run a lap” around the pool outside in order to expend excess energy during school hours.”When the school day’s over, then usually we all try to get together and work out,” he elaborates.

“I think that’s been one of the coolest things … most of the time I’m gone or I’m somewhere at the gym working out or training, but because of this situation, we’ve had an opportunity to have family workouts where we all work out together.”

After spending the last couple of months in isolation, the basketball icon claims that his family life at home is operating like “a well-oiled machine” — largely due to Jada, 36.”During the initial two weeks, I made every effort to assist with numeracy and physical education.

“However, my wife has been phenomenal, given that I’ve been on the receiving end of countless phone calls every day as the president of the union,” Paul tells PEOPLE.”So in between my calls, I go up there and check in on Spanish or what’s going on as far as school, and I can look at my wife’s face and tell that her calling was not to be a teacher,” he acknowledges.

“She does the absolute best she can, but … it might be that she could be a teacher, just probably not with our kids.”