That's a lot of money from the Suns...they are rewarding him for last year, but tying their hands for the future. I'm not so sure there are a number of other point guards out there who could have filled the role with a (now) more mature team.
Think DeRozan will take a pay cut in Miami to re-team with Lowry?
Think DeRozan will take a pay cut in Miami to re-team with Lowry?
That's actually false. Only 3 years/$75m is fully guaranteed. So that's ultimately all that is committed at this point. Not a bad deal at all for the guy who took a franchise from an 11 year playoff drought, to only 2 wins away from winning an NBA title. Plus, they signed his handcuff Cam Payne to a very friendly deal. No brainer for PHX.
Still very bad contract
This is how franchises mess up opportunities for sustained success. They need to have money to surround Booker/Ayton with more talent. One more year of Chris Paul max
This team isn't going back to the finals unless they are gift wrapped an injury path again like this past season , and even then they might not
And good luck trying to trade Chris Paul this time at his age
LOL. PHX is in win now mode. NOW is their window. Are they set up nice for the future? Beyond Paul? Sure. Best of both worlds for a franchise.
And Paul is still a top 3 PG in the league. He was in EVERYONE's (worth a damn) top 5 in the MVP voting last year. Led his team to the Finals. Severely injuries his wrist against LAC in the WCF. Which greatly effected his play in the Finals. Never makes excuses for it. (Had surgery after the season on the down low)
Yet we have some dummies saying he's not worth 3 years at 75m. Amazing how ignorant some so called sports fans are.
Didn't Phoenix go like 8-0 in the bubble after the long layoff? Wasn't that before Paul joined the team? I still don't know why he gets so much credit. All the talk about a non-playoff team to contender in the finals might technically be true, but it's doesn't say anything about them already being one of the best teams in the league after the layoff without Paul. Am I wrong? I think that was the timeline.
Dude he was not injured for the finals. If he was injured, he would've struggled consistently throughout them. He was up and down in the finals, including choking
If they are win-now mode, then they should've signed him for a 1 year contract. Or let him play the final year out even at that ridiculous price of last contract -- given it's just one year. If they are still in "win-now" mode in 2024, they why the fuck do they want 40 year old Chris Paul on their roster?
He is not a top-3 point guard in the league. Come on man lol
He is the second best player on a team that's probably the fifth-best in the league, though that could be third pretty soon if Ayton keeps ascending and Paul falls off a little. They got to the finals because of injuries. Sure, that's a possible way to get there, but not a way I would bank on year-to-year.
They basically got gift-wrapped the easiest possible path to championship they could've hoped for, and they still managed to choke it away -- partly because of CP3, partly because of Ayton/Booker, and mostly because of Monty's AWFUL strategy against Giannis
This team isn't going back to the finals. Should've ran it back one more year max
They were an ascending team before Paul got there for sure. Paul definitely helped them out, but he does get too much credit. People laughably think he is better than Booker, which is just wrong
Phoenix was actually pretty good in the playoffs without Chris Paul playing. Can you imagine how they would've done if Booker sat out?
I guess he was technically the 2 last year. Harden was the 1. Not that it matters really.
I'd put Paul top 3 (based on last season), but realize that's debatable. He's still at the very least top 5-6. And I don't think that's debatable.
Curry obviously numero uno if considered a pg. Ive always thought of him as a shooting guard.
Kyrie and Trae are both better than CP3 lolol
the only way you can try to say CP3 is a top 3 point guard is by arguing that guys are ahead of him are not true "point guards". But if that were the case then there really arent many true point guards.
In any case:
Steph
Luka
Harden
Young
Kyrie
all better players than CP3
Best case is CP3 is 6th, which I don't think is a given
