On May 3, Beijing time, in the first game of the Western Conference semifinals at home against the Lone Rangers at home to the Suns, Paul continued to improve his playoff assists ranking. Paul's career total assists in this playoff game have improved to at least 1144, surpassing the French legend Parker Parker's record of 1143 to rise to no. 5 in all-time playoff assists, and only inferior to James in the second place in the playoffs.
In the first round of the season in six playoff games, Paul led the team to eliminate the Pelicans 4-2 with excellent offensive passing performance, even though Booker missed 3 games due to injury, but Paul scored 19 points to win in the last two games, and G6 gave 14 of 14 of 14 playoff history.
In addition, Paul had only 8 assists in the first round except for the G6 game, and had previously provided 5 consecutive assists in double-figures, 10, 14, 14, 11, and 11 assists, averaging 11.3 assists per game in the first round to lead the playoffs assist list, leaving second-place Morant with 10.4 assists and third Harden with 10.2 assists.
Now Paul is about to celebrate his 37th birthday and continue to impact the first NBA title of his career. Paul continued to demonstrate his excellent organizational control skills. With Paul having delivered at least three assists against the Lone Ranger, his playoff career assists have increased to at least 1144, surpassing Spurs' four-time champion Parker with 1143 assists, rising to the 5th place in NBA playoff history assist list.
Paul's top-up assists list is the current Lone Ranger coach Kidd with 1263 assists, and the second place in the current campaign is second only to good brother James with 2346 assists.
The top 6 in the NBA's all-time assists list are:
1. Magic Johnson 2346 assists
2. James 1919 assists
3. Stockton 1839 assists
4. Kidd 1263 assists
5. Paul 1144+ assists (in the game)
6. Parker 1143 assists
(Text/Drunken Floating Life)