Chris Paul traded to Houston
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Yeah didn't he lead the league in turnovers and CP3 is always one of the best at taking care of the ball
Harden pushed for this so maybe he is ready to play off the ball
but a good coach good system some type of amoeba defense....
if they play like those Nash Suns?
It COULD work.
and more than likely will...dolan didn't dump phil just to buy out melo and let him walk
Folks get caught up in the hype.
Golden State aint invincible. GS has 3 elite players.
Harden and Paul are 2 elite players and they can compete with GS as a back court. Houston is in search for and in need of an additional elite player.
Melo or PG13 will fill that bill.
GS is about to lose Livingston and Andre Iggy to free agency.
I am looking forward to seeing GS big 3 vs Houston big 3.
Golden State aint invincible. GS has 3 elite players.
Harden and Paul are 2 elite players and they can compete with GS as a back court. Houston is in search for and in need of an additional elite player.
Melo or PG13 will fill that bill.
GS is about to lose Livingston and Andre Iggy to free agency.
I am looking forward to seeing GS big 3 vs Houston big 3.
Fam stop it you clearly not watching basketball to even say something like this
Warriors have 8-9 playmakers who can create their own shot and are excellent without the ball..
At this stage in the curry is better than Paul, Durant is better than whom ever Houston get on the wing, Klay better than their GS and he will have no issues locking down Harden if he moves to SG..
Draymond is going to abuse whomever playing the 4-5 for Houston..
Iggy is staying.. also with these moves everyone is making Livingston will stay just off the strength everyone trying to tool up to beat them. Also they just drafted Bell from Oregon.. come on man
Only person leaving the Dubs is Clarke
Its just media click bites and also delusional fans....
all that spurs talk was silly to me; Im still shocked that he chose the Rockets though...
Grading The Deal: Rockets Trade For Chris Paul
BY CHRISTOPHER REINA
JUN 28, 2017 12:37 PM
As a pure free agent, Chris Paul didn’t like his options and that was understandable. Paul could take the five years to commit to a Los Angeles Clippers’ team that had plateaued and lacked the means to get meaningfully better, or he could sign a four-year deal with a stripped down version of the Houston Rockets or San Antonio Spurs.
In a completely shocking and impressively creative move, Paul instead opted in to the final year of his contract to orchestrate a trade to the Rockets. Paul gets to join a team that is only losing Patrick Beverley, Lou Williams, Sam Dekker, Montrezl Harrell and a 2018 first round pick while also essentially agreeing upon a six-year, $233 million contract. Paul gets a $3.6 million trade bonus along with his $24.27 million for 17-18 and will almost certainly sign a five-year, $205 million deal in 2018 with the Rockets.
Paul feels like an all or nothing type of player in terms of projecting the remaining seasons of his prime. If Paul is healthy enough to play, he’ll remain one of the game’s best point guards and one of the best players. Paul may become a parody of himself in the final season or two of this contract on some back-to-backs, but he’s an all-time great and those level of players still find their shine.
Paul has been underrated as an athlete at various points of his career, but he is too much of a savant to not figure it out in those first few years when his body begins to slip away from his mind.
Paul ranked second in the entire NBA in Real Plus Minus this past season behind only LeBron James and ahead of Stephen Curry, Draymond Green and Kawhi Leonard. Excluding any Warriors, Paul ranked first in the NBA in Net Rating. Paul was an early MVP candidate last November and would have made that foursome of Russell Westbrook, James Harden, Leonard and James a fivesome if he would have stayed healthy.
The fit feels awkward in some ways with how fast Mike D’Antoni wants to play and how methodical Paul prefers the tempo. The mid-range aspect of Paul’s game, as well as sharing possessions with James Harden, is potentially problematic but could counterintuitively work really well. Harden has consistently worn out in the playoffs and Paul will save him both in regular season and more importantly in the playoffs. Opposing defenses will have to defend the entire halfcourt with Paul coming off pick and rolls instead of simply hedging all the way out to the three-point line or at the rim.
D’Antoni will stagger their minutes to make sure both Paul and Harden have plenty of time to dominate the ball. Houston gets 48 minutes of D’Antoni figuring out how to use two of the best offensive players in the game. The Rockets were already a historically great offense and will be even better in 17-18 while also maintaining themselves defensively with Paul replacing Beverley. With Paul and Harden dictating play, Clint Capela and Ryan Anderson will be even more valuable.
Dating all the way back to Speedy Claxton in those early New Orleans years, Paul has always paired well playing with another point guard. Harden isn't a traditional point guard but he's at the point in his career, in the middle of his prime, where he's ready to sacrifice to win. Paul could also hold Harden accountable on defense in a way we haven't seen before. Harden has the physical capacity to be a good defensive player, but his problems have been due to a lack of focus and the amount of energy he expends on offense. Paul helps tremendously in both ways.
The Warriors still appear to be an immovable, unbreakable force, but the Rockets have taken their high variance three-pointers and layup strategy and plunked Chris Paul down right in the middle of it. Golden State may still sweep them but the Rockets will make this very interesting.
Grade for Rockets: A
Paul is an uncompromising ideologue when it comes to attention for detail and he’s clearly not a fun teammate. This is fine when teams win, but it’s been an exhausting six seasons that makes that Lob City video when Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan found out Paul was being traded to the Clippers a foreboding moment in retrospect.
The Clippers will reflect back on Paul’s time with the franchise as the greatest run in franchise history, yet filled with missed opportunities. There have been the impediments of the Spurs, Thunder, Rockets and Grizzlies, but they’ve never even lost a playoff series to the Warriors, who have annihilated them repeatedly in the regular season. Their paths never crossed during the Warriors' run over the past three seasons and unintentionally let that monster form when they beat them in a seven-game first round series in 2014 that led to the Mark Jackson dismissal.
Beverley and Williams don’t fit especially well into the Clippers likely long-term vision and could be moved down the road. Beverley in particular has immense trade value as he’s signed through 18-19 on one of the NBA’s best value contracts.
The fear for the Clippers was that they would re-sign one of Paul and Griffin, remain stuck and then begin a rebuild several years too late. That’s on top of J.J. Redick, who is surely gone as well. They’ve chosen a course and could have enough cap space in 2018 to sign two supermax free agents if Griffin leaves.
The Clippers can also let Griffin completely take over the team, dominating the ball from the power forward position that has appeared to be his best destiny.
Grade for Clippers: B
Assuming Paul makes it to the 2018 in one piece to sign his new five-year contract, he’s played this situation extraordinarily well. The financial creativity of the move is as impressively genius as the move was shocking when it was first reported. Paul similarly postponed his free agency by one season when he was traded by New Orleans to the Clippers in 2011 and now he gets to essentially sign a six-year, $230+ million deal, which means he's doing better with this move than he would if he simply re-signed with the Clippers.
Paul improves his chances of competing for a title while extending the prime of his career by playing with another ball dominant player.
The Rockets’ front office has been one of the most creative in terms of identifying role players, which has been one of the issues that limited the upside of the Clippers.
Grade for Chris Paul: B+
BY CHRISTOPHER REINA
JUN 28, 2017 12:37 PM
As a pure free agent, Chris Paul didn’t like his options and that was understandable. Paul could take the five years to commit to a Los Angeles Clippers’ team that had plateaued and lacked the means to get meaningfully better, or he could sign a four-year deal with a stripped down version of the Houston Rockets or San Antonio Spurs.
In a completely shocking and impressively creative move, Paul instead opted in to the final year of his contract to orchestrate a trade to the Rockets. Paul gets to join a team that is only losing Patrick Beverley, Lou Williams, Sam Dekker, Montrezl Harrell and a 2018 first round pick while also essentially agreeing upon a six-year, $233 million contract. Paul gets a $3.6 million trade bonus along with his $24.27 million for 17-18 and will almost certainly sign a five-year, $205 million deal in 2018 with the Rockets.
Paul feels like an all or nothing type of player in terms of projecting the remaining seasons of his prime. If Paul is healthy enough to play, he’ll remain one of the game’s best point guards and one of the best players. Paul may become a parody of himself in the final season or two of this contract on some back-to-backs, but he’s an all-time great and those level of players still find their shine.
Paul has been underrated as an athlete at various points of his career, but he is too much of a savant to not figure it out in those first few years when his body begins to slip away from his mind.
Paul ranked second in the entire NBA in Real Plus Minus this past season behind only LeBron James and ahead of Stephen Curry, Draymond Green and Kawhi Leonard. Excluding any Warriors, Paul ranked first in the NBA in Net Rating. Paul was an early MVP candidate last November and would have made that foursome of Russell Westbrook, James Harden, Leonard and James a fivesome if he would have stayed healthy.
The fit feels awkward in some ways with how fast Mike D’Antoni wants to play and how methodical Paul prefers the tempo. The mid-range aspect of Paul’s game, as well as sharing possessions with James Harden, is potentially problematic but could counterintuitively work really well. Harden has consistently worn out in the playoffs and Paul will save him both in regular season and more importantly in the playoffs. Opposing defenses will have to defend the entire halfcourt with Paul coming off pick and rolls instead of simply hedging all the way out to the three-point line or at the rim.
D’Antoni will stagger their minutes to make sure both Paul and Harden have plenty of time to dominate the ball. Houston gets 48 minutes of D’Antoni figuring out how to use two of the best offensive players in the game. The Rockets were already a historically great offense and will be even better in 17-18 while also maintaining themselves defensively with Paul replacing Beverley. With Paul and Harden dictating play, Clint Capela and Ryan Anderson will be even more valuable.
Dating all the way back to Speedy Claxton in those early New Orleans years, Paul has always paired well playing with another point guard. Harden isn't a traditional point guard but he's at the point in his career, in the middle of his prime, where he's ready to sacrifice to win. Paul could also hold Harden accountable on defense in a way we haven't seen before. Harden has the physical capacity to be a good defensive player, but his problems have been due to a lack of focus and the amount of energy he expends on offense. Paul helps tremendously in both ways.
The Warriors still appear to be an immovable, unbreakable force, but the Rockets have taken their high variance three-pointers and layup strategy and plunked Chris Paul down right in the middle of it. Golden State may still sweep them but the Rockets will make this very interesting.
Grade for Rockets: A
Paul is an uncompromising ideologue when it comes to attention for detail and he’s clearly not a fun teammate. This is fine when teams win, but it’s been an exhausting six seasons that makes that Lob City video when Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan found out Paul was being traded to the Clippers a foreboding moment in retrospect.
The Clippers will reflect back on Paul’s time with the franchise as the greatest run in franchise history, yet filled with missed opportunities. There have been the impediments of the Spurs, Thunder, Rockets and Grizzlies, but they’ve never even lost a playoff series to the Warriors, who have annihilated them repeatedly in the regular season. Their paths never crossed during the Warriors' run over the past three seasons and unintentionally let that monster form when they beat them in a seven-game first round series in 2014 that led to the Mark Jackson dismissal.
Beverley and Williams don’t fit especially well into the Clippers likely long-term vision and could be moved down the road. Beverley in particular has immense trade value as he’s signed through 18-19 on one of the NBA’s best value contracts.
The fear for the Clippers was that they would re-sign one of Paul and Griffin, remain stuck and then begin a rebuild several years too late. That’s on top of J.J. Redick, who is surely gone as well. They’ve chosen a course and could have enough cap space in 2018 to sign two supermax free agents if Griffin leaves.
The Clippers can also let Griffin completely take over the team, dominating the ball from the power forward position that has appeared to be his best destiny.
Grade for Clippers: B
Assuming Paul makes it to the 2018 in one piece to sign his new five-year contract, he’s played this situation extraordinarily well. The financial creativity of the move is as impressively genius as the move was shocking when it was first reported. Paul similarly postponed his free agency by one season when he was traded by New Orleans to the Clippers in 2011 and now he gets to essentially sign a six-year, $230+ million deal, which means he's doing better with this move than he would if he simply re-signed with the Clippers.
Paul improves his chances of competing for a title while extending the prime of his career by playing with another ball dominant player.
The Rockets’ front office has been one of the most creative in terms of identifying role players, which has been one of the issues that limited the upside of the Clippers.
Grade for Chris Paul: B+
I'm cool with him doing what he wanted to do.
Me too; everybody should be; and im glad players are taking matters into their own hands; also im glad some gms are not waiting around for the dubs to collapse; it will be interesting to see all other moves....
I'm looking forward to it too. Will be fun seeing them try to outscore us.
Melo hates Dantoni and vice versa
So word is Chris Paul has BEEN GONE since they didn't trade for Melo at the deadline
Doc was like Austin can carry us anyway
Family over errethang!
Nope if he gets a buyout he's going to Cleveland. Did we forget what happened this past winter? What Dantoni just said?
Because Doc is possibly the worst GM we've seen recently maybe even worst then Phil because he had trade pieces and were scared to use them. Made awful trades too.
He didn't want to included his baby boy in the deal but the thing is he had already done him a solid! Got his son a contract and secured his NBA status cuz his career was failing he was about to be Dleague/overseas status before Doc saved him. Now he has his own millions you gotta trade him man are you trying to compete or nah.
Naw man he had chances to get rid of Jamal Crawford for a decent piece. Let's not forget the Jared Dudley deal with Eric Bledsoe. He's been awful
Just looked this up.. got damn... almost 6 turnovers per game
Nice final payday for Cp3. Also, good news for the Warriors.
Currently, NO TEAM in the West has made a move that could slow them down; and i include the Rockets in that.
I dont know how any of you can look at whats going on right now and not think its gonna be Cavs vs GS part 4. Shit is so all over the place in this league.
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Same shit
Backcourt 2017
Chris Paul, Doc Rivers Reportedly Clashed over Austin Rivers, Carmelo Anthony
Chris Paul's tenure with the Los Angeles Clippers ended Wednesday when the team shipped him to the Houston Rockets, according to The Vertical's Adrian Wojnarowski, and the trade signaled the conclusion of what was reportedly a contentious relationship with head coach Doc Rivers.
According to SportsCenter's Michael Eaves, Paul had begun to resent Rivers because he, along with other Clippers players, thought the head coach was coddling his son, guard Austin Rivers.
"It led to resentment within the locker room, which often played out during games," Eaves wrote. "One of Paul's biggest contentions with Doc was that Paul, and other players, felt Doc treated Austin more favorably than other players. He would yell at guys for certain things during games and practices but not get on Austin in the same manner for similar transgressions."
Along those same lines, Paul reportedly became fed up with Rivers—who is also the team's president of basketball operations—when he nixed a trade last season that could have landed the Clippers Carmelo Anthony.
"New York offered Carmelo and Sasha Vujacic to the Clippers in exchange for Jamal Crawford, Paul Pierce and Austin Rivers, a deal to which Rivers ultimately said no," Eaves added. "That event led Paul to feel that keeping his son on the roster was more important to Doc than improving the team."
Citing a league executive, Eaves reported Paul now "despises" Rivers because of how those situations were handled.
Rivers' daughter, Callie, disputed the report shortly after it was published:
With Wednesday's split, both Paul and the Clippers will embark on new eras.
For Paul, that means linking up with James Harden and possibly one other star, according to ESPN.com's Jeff Goodman, to challenge the Golden State Warriors for Western Conference superiority.
Citing a source, ESPN.com's Tim MacMahon reported Wednesday the Rockets "think they are getting Carmelo Anthony or Paul George."
On the flip side, the Clippers netted a solid return with Patrick Beverley, Lou Williams, Montrezl Harrell, Sam Dekker and a 2018 first-round pick all reportedly bound for Hollywood.
Paul's departure also opened the door for the Clippers to focus on re-signing Blake Griffin when free agency starts July 1, according to ESPN.com's Ramona Shelburne.
Making do without Paul won't be easy considering he was the maestro who ran Rivers' offense the last four seasons, but L.A. will have the pieces to remain competitive in the short term if Griffin can be convinced to stay tethered to the Clippers for the foreseeable future.
Chris Paul's tenure with the Los Angeles Clippers ended Wednesday when the team shipped him to the Houston Rockets, according to The Vertical's Adrian Wojnarowski, and the trade signaled the conclusion of what was reportedly a contentious relationship with head coach Doc Rivers.
According to SportsCenter's Michael Eaves, Paul had begun to resent Rivers because he, along with other Clippers players, thought the head coach was coddling his son, guard Austin Rivers.
"It led to resentment within the locker room, which often played out during games," Eaves wrote. "One of Paul's biggest contentions with Doc was that Paul, and other players, felt Doc treated Austin more favorably than other players. He would yell at guys for certain things during games and practices but not get on Austin in the same manner for similar transgressions."
Along those same lines, Paul reportedly became fed up with Rivers—who is also the team's president of basketball operations—when he nixed a trade last season that could have landed the Clippers Carmelo Anthony.
"New York offered Carmelo and Sasha Vujacic to the Clippers in exchange for Jamal Crawford, Paul Pierce and Austin Rivers, a deal to which Rivers ultimately said no," Eaves added. "That event led Paul to feel that keeping his son on the roster was more important to Doc than improving the team."
Citing a league executive, Eaves reported Paul now "despises" Rivers because of how those situations were handled.
Rivers' daughter, Callie, disputed the report shortly after it was published:
With Wednesday's split, both Paul and the Clippers will embark on new eras.
For Paul, that means linking up with James Harden and possibly one other star, according to ESPN.com's Jeff Goodman, to challenge the Golden State Warriors for Western Conference superiority.
Citing a source, ESPN.com's Tim MacMahon reported Wednesday the Rockets "think they are getting Carmelo Anthony or Paul George."
On the flip side, the Clippers netted a solid return with Patrick Beverley, Lou Williams, Montrezl Harrell, Sam Dekker and a 2018 first-round pick all reportedly bound for Hollywood.
Paul's departure also opened the door for the Clippers to focus on re-signing Blake Griffin when free agency starts July 1, according to ESPN.com's Ramona Shelburne.
Making do without Paul won't be easy considering he was the maestro who ran Rivers' offense the last four seasons, but L.A. will have the pieces to remain competitive in the short term if Griffin can be convinced to stay tethered to the Clippers for the foreseeable future.
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