NBA Storybook: Paul's Career Hit 58 Fiasco Into Eternal Pain

In the summer of 2008, Chris Paul added olympic gold medals and renewed a new four-year, $68 million contract with the Hornets.

At the time, many experts believed that Paul was already the league's first point guard, and following this trend, it was only a matter of time before Paul won the NBA championship and won the regular season MVP.

At the time, Paul was still very young, he was only 22 years old, and it seemed that there was still a lot of good prospects waiting for him in his NBA career. But what everyone did not expect was that soon, Paul would suffer a major blow to his career, and his basketball path was far from being as smooth as expected...

At the beginning of the 2008-09 season, Paul continued to maintain a high prolific score, assist and steal, and the gorgeous and wise style of the game also allowed him to have more and more fans.

On January 24, 2009, the NBA officially announced the season's All-Star Game starting lineup, and Paul entered the 10-man roster for the first time in his career. A month later, on the night of the game, Paul played 29 minutes and had 14 points, seven rebounds and 14 assists to lead the Western Conference All-Stars to a big win.

Fast forward to April, and Paul was once again named The Western Conference Player of the Month. At the end of the season, paul's name was not absent in the all-team and all-defensive teams.

Throughout the regular season, Paul played in 78 games, averaging 38.5 minutes per game, with 22.8 points, 5.6 rebounds and 11.0 assists, and he successfully won the assist and steal kings, and once again set his sights on the playoff stage.

However, that year's playoffs were humiliating and disastrous for Paul, and against the equally powerful Nuggets, the Hornets only fought with their opponents for 5 games before losing. What is even more unacceptable than a round trip is that in game 4 of the series, the Hornets suffered a 58-point defeat at home, writing the record for the largest single-game loss point difference in NBA playoff history, and the magic number of 58 is often lingering in Paul's career in the future, becoming a handle for people to ridicule and ridicule him.

But Paul's bad luck is far from over, continuing the fiasco of the first half of the year, and entering the second half of the year, the trouble of injury and illness comes to the door again.

On November 14, 2009, after the Hornets lost 78-86 to the Blazers, Paul injured his left knee and took eight games off. Later, Paul made a quick comeback after being groomed, and on January 29, 2010, it was officially announced that he was once again on the All-Star team as a substitute. But just a day after the news was announced, in a wasp-bull battle, Paul was again accidentally attacked, and he hit the sideline camera in a scramble, causing the meniscus in his left knee to tear.

That knee injury gave Paul two months of rest, and although he returned quickly at the end of the regular season, he did not help the team grab the playoff tickets. Paul played only 45 games in total, the fewest since entering the league, and although he can still contribute 10.7 assists per game, his assists throne has also been taken away by Nash.

Prior to this knee injury, Paul was a Hot Wheel on the pitch with outstanding athletic talent and a performance of Dwight Howard in the septum. However, after the knee injury, Paul gradually became a floor flow player, although his organizational ability is still at the master level, but in some technical aspects, he has to make adjustments. With this as a watershed, Paul's career is about to enter a new stage...