Chris Paul Was the Problem

I thought trading Eric Gordon for CP was dumb. EG and Blake were the best scoring duo in the league. When CP was here he was nothing but problems. He didn't get along with Doc or DJ. JJ Reddick said it was the worst time in his career and Kenyon Martin said he was one of the most disliked in the NBA. Lob City didn't get along in the locker room. When he left he insulted us and violently stormed the locker room. Harden got rid of him. From there he drifted around and his main legacy as the Point Gourd is stats, not rings or at least close. Heaven would have been he and Kobe as LAL.

It was my assessment that he was likely was the root cause of our horrible start or at least a huge percent and lack of bowel movement which was proven true by our improvement when he left. One of the Barrys was color commentator for the Raptors game. He said that he wouldn't mention names but a famous player was 100% the problem and things are better since he left and he has first hand knowledge, It was obviously CP. Given this I am not for retiring his jersey.

He was A problem not THE problem. However, it's over. He's gone and we should be thankful that he's gone. No statue should be built for him. No number should be retired.

Chris Paul very happy that the Clips didn't make it, despite "at peace with everything" lol.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/48500400/chris-paul-trolls-la-clippers-nba-play-tournament-loss

Honestly do not care about the little man and his little man syndrome.

He's gone - and literally retired cause nobody wanted him.

I saw the meme he posted... it literally is the same meme I would use for his career. Sorry to be harsh, and I was a (and still am a) huge fan of his competitive days. But Napoleon complex has a way of coming back to bite you in the ass if you are not humbled in life.

Clearly he was not humbled. Peace be with him. Peace be with us all.

He never changes.

Well said. I think the fact that he was so disliked by his peers pretty much sums it up I do have to point out the good though. If I were to sum up the good, I will say that he's the one who really got the ball rolling in OKC. When Hurricane Katrina hit and the Hornets were temporarily relocated to OKC, it was his play and leadership as a rookie that set the tone and got the entire market into the NBA Likewise, when the team went back to New Orleans, it was his play that kept New Orleans from relocating permanently elsewhere We all know what he did here so no need to rehash it but I always laugh when L word fans still get butt hurt over the nixed deal. For those that don't know, the league owned the Hornets and therefore, could do whatever they wanted with the franchise. Stern worked for the owners and the owners said that the trade made a mockery of the lockout that we all had to put up with. But more to the point, he would've been a horrible fit with Kobe. They would've been at each other's throats the whole time. Kobe needs a defense first floor leader like Fisher who just gets the ball past halfcourt and passes it to him and gets out of the way. CP was the opposite of that as his game was pick and roll, lobs and kicking out to open shooters. The L word had no 3 point shooters, nobody to run the pick and roll to since the proposed trade would've had Gasol going to Houston and Bynum would barely jump so he wouldn't have made much of a lob threat. That would've been such a horrible fit that I actually wish the....

If it didn't work in the future with Steve Nash, it wasn't going to work with Chris Paul.

And Nash had Dwight Howard. I saw both Nash while with Dwight in LA and Jeremy Lin, while with Howard in Houston, both get mad at him for not running the pick and roll correctly. He and CP would've bumped heads as well

Howard got mad at Nash or Nash got mad at Howard?

Same question for Jeremy Lin.

Believe it or not, Nash and Lin both got mad at Howard. Their facial expressions and body language were almost exact to the T. You could tell it was regarding botched pick and rolls given the way they were pointing at spots on the floor where Howard muffed it

Funny. Wish we had a video.