With the Hornets six seasons, the Clippers six, the Rockets two, the Thunder one and the second season at the Suns, Chris Paul was able to lead the team to at least eight more games than the previous season when he arrived with a new team. Everywhere he went, Paul didn't disappoint the fans, telling them that he was the league's top point guard with tangible stats and results. Wearing the jerseys of 5 teams in 17 seasons, from the Hornets to the Suns, a special "Paul's law" has never changed, that is, his first season with any team, this team will be more effective than before
Young Queen Bee - 58 points in the playoff tragedy
In the 2008-09 season, Paul continued his smart and gorgeous play in the regular season, leading the Hornets into the playoff stage. In the first round against the melon-led Nuggets, Paul played abnormally, the bee colony was leaderless, and the Hornets were completely crushed, losing the Nuggets by 58 points, so that the "58" stem was left to this day. After "CP58", it seems that all bad luck has a cut-and-mess connection with Chris Paul. In the 10-11 season, the Hornets were out of the first round of the playoffs, and Paul was heartbroken. Since then, there has been the number one trading restriction in the history of the NBA , the Stern Trading Order. Originally, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Hornets had reached a deal, and the Lakers sent Odom + Grand Gasol to get Paul, but because the Hornets were in a "hosting" state at the time, the NBA was a commercial alliance after all, and Stern's ban made the dream of retaining and joining forces with Kobe Bryant frustrated. Eventually, Chris Paul brought the talent to the Los Angeles Clippers.
The City of Empty Connections - the floor of the Western Finale that can never be touched
After coming to the Clippers, Paul's dream remained the same — the shining championship ring. Dreams are beautiful, reality is bone-chilling. In the Clippers 6 brother season, although Paul + Jordan Jr. + Griffin brought many unforgettable moments to the fans, the city of air connection is more famous in the United States, the god of fate always likes to tease Chris Paul, in the Clippers' 6 years, although the team can enter the playoffs, but can not go further. In the end, the Clippers and the Rockets made a deal — the Rockets sent Beverley and seven other players to get Chris Paul to join, and Paul and the Clippers peacefully broke up.
Bulb combination - one leg regret
In the 2018 regular season, Paul and Harden led the Rockets to create the team's best record and the best record in the league that season with 65 wins and 17 losses. In the playoffs, the Rockets first beheaded the Little Wolves (Timberwolves), and then the Jazz, of which the Western Conference Semifinals Rockets vs. Jazz Game 5, the two sides played difficult points, the game to the fourth quarter, Chris Paul made a big fuss in the three-point line and hit consecutive shots, and finally got the playoff career-high 41 points, personally ended the Jazz counterattack, sent himself to the Western Conference Finals floor. Meet the Golden State Warriors who were unparalleled in the world at that time in the Western Final. At that time, the performance of the Western Conference Final was wonderful enough to enter the history of the NBA. Unexpectedly, Paul strained his thigh during the crucial "Battle of King Mountain". As a result, Paul could only sit on the bench and watch the Rockets being reversed by the Warriors, and the picture of him angrily pounding the bench became an "unforgettable regret" in his career. This year, Chris Paul was 33 years old.
I thought that the 2019 season was a season of the Rockets' comeback (revenge), but it turned out that "the world only knows forty million, no one mentions São Paulo" has become the most terrier paragraph in the Tiger Basketball Forum. Yes, Paul and his teammates did not beat the Golden State Warriors in the new season, and there were irreconcilable contradictions in the relationship between Paul and Harden. Eventually, the Infinite Defense Rockets officially disintegrated, and Chris Paul was sold to the Oklahoma Thunder.
Thunder rebuild - swing into the playoffs
In fact, since breaking up with Harden outright, questions and controversies about Paul as the team leader have been rife — not just from the outside, but even inside the NBA. The Thunder in the 2020 season are aiming to rebuild, and the team's goal at the beginning of the season is only one: to swing. Chris Paul went into the playoffs with the rebuilding Thunder; this year, Chris Paul proved that he was still the top point guard in the league; this year, "your uncle is still your uncle"; this year, Chris Paul completed his nirvana rebirth in the rebuilding Thunder. Paul had a peaceful and happy season with the Thunder, the Thunder management was also an adult beauty, and made a deal with the Suns, Paul joined the Suns, and once again launched a challenge to the championship.
The sun rises - when the champion is within reach
And when Paul of the Thunder stopped the first round of the playoffs again and then moved to the Suns, questions about whether he could give the Suns a boost to the youngsters began to surround him again. Coming to the Suns for the first season Paul helped the young Suns complete their metamorphosis. On May 17, Beijing time, the NBA regular season pulled the curtain down, and the Suns defeated the Spurs 123-121 to sit in the second place in the West and the second place in the league. The last time the Suns achieved such impressive results was in the 2005-2006 season. Why is it that the Suns now have a huge "leap" after a short offseason, and can even "replicate" the Suns' heyday record? The biggest change is that Booker and Ayton have an extra big brother by their side, Chris Paul.
NBA 2020-2021 Season Finals Suns vs Bucks, the Suns in the finals of the 2-0 lead by the Bucks in a good situation by the Bucks four consecutive games to lose the championship. Chris Paul, once again tragically staged. The sun is making a comeback in the new season, advancing to the playoffs with a 2021-2022 regular season no. 1 record. As of today, in the sixth game of the NBA playoff first round in the Western Conference, the Phoenix Suns defeated the New Orleans Pelicans 115-109 away from home to advance to the Western Conference semifinals by an aggregate score of 4-2. Paul made history with 14 shots, contributed a team-high 33 points, and had 5 rebounds and 8 assists, at this time I remembered the extremely focused, constantly fighting Paul, just for the championship.
Paul is a typical "contradiction" in the league, the 17th season in the NBA, with the title of "God of Defenders" is controversial - the strength of personality, physical injuries, the fate of "missing the championship", and the classic "58 Terriers" in the mouth of fans... But Paul has been fighting, not stubbornly fighting against everyone, but constantly changing himself and adapting to the environment, and then breaking the doubt. As he puts it, "Control everything I can control and stick to the basketball I love, that's all." ”