[Siegel] The Minnesota Timberwolves and Houston Rockets have shown interest in acquiring Chris Paul from the LA Clippers.
Rockets have 2 young guys that needs to attain PG skills. Of course they are interested in the Point God.
But the possibility of killing the vibes on a team with KD, who very much seems like a vibe driven guy, sounds like a risk
Y’all have to stop falling for narratives Chris Paul isn’t a vibe killer …the clippers suck and their future is bleak that’s whats killing the vibe
Commas, brother
Here comes the punctuation police ..Im not writing an essay for class so who cares
Because without punctuation it sounds like the exact opposite of what you meant
Seems, like ,ppl ,understand ,exactly ,what ,I ,meant
Commas are the difference between helping your uncle jack off a horse and helping your uncle, jack, off a horse.
LETS EAT GRANDMA
Most Americans read at an elementary school level
You should want more for yourself, stop comparing yourself to dummies
As an English major from many moons ago, the disdain for learning to write coherent, grammatically correct sentences is as old as time among the general masses. One of my professors said she used to make 5K as a consultant just teaching simple sentence structure in a 2 hour seminar for corporate execs. Shit like Superman flies ___ the mountain, where the goal is to teach prepositions.
These were grown adults making a ton of money who needed remedial English, cause we as a nation don’t value it as a skill. It’s all about making money the quickest way possible. And if you can do so without possessing skills like writing, it’s therefore not a necessary skill.
who cares
Anyone trying to figure out what your point is.
The way you wrote it, grammatically you’re saying the narrative is “Chris Paul isn’t a vibe killer,” and you’re telling people to stop falling for this. Meaning, he is a vibe killer.
But you’re telling me to correct it ..which means you know exactly what I meant
The vibes were immaculate his first stint in houston. The issue is that he was hardly healthy. If Ime and the gang see it fit, I’d love to see him back in a Rockets uniform to give a few minutes a night while potentially mentoring Reed & Amen.
KD and CP3 have been in the league long enough and are diva enough to have developed their own beef. We’ll never know until they’re on the same team.
they literally were on the same team only a couple years ago. But KD then got him shipped out in the terrible Beal trade.
That’s fair. I’m a huge CP3 fan tbh but he does have an intense personality 😬 that’s all I’m saying. Clippers couldn’t handle it, want to risk it on the Rockets who already have a bright future?
The clippers are like 6-18 they never planned on winning. Cp3 was trying to help them win and they weren’t trying hear it. You act like cp3 was going around hazing people
Well if you look at their roster and the fact they brought CP3 in the first place they sure as shit weren’t planning on losing ….
They brought in cp3 just not to listen to him lol. It’s no leadership in the clippers locker room
I agree with you! I dont think he was hazing them hahah my bad for coming across that way. My point is he’s intense and wants to lead which changes a locker room. I’m not saying he would be good or bad, just that there is a risk to it
There’s like zero risk to it, except for the assets you potentially have to give up to get him, which isn’t going to be much.
Just ask OKC how much CP3 can help a young, hungry team learn how to play properly.
CP3 has worn out his welcome on like 6 different teams. By all accounts he’s irritating ASF.
You’re just making shit up
Sorry 8 teams. If you’ve been divorced 8 times it might be a you problem.
I think this whole intense personality stems from holding teammates accountable. Like he expects dudes to do their job, and if you’re a bum then ya he’ll let u hear it. Houston with Udoka and cp3 could be elite
Chris paul holding people accountable and mad that the clippers wasn’t hungry enough, the rockets are a young team with no egos and a ready to with, they also have vets, cp3 would fit right in. It’s basically perfect fit
They’re coached by Ime, I wouldn’t think Chris Paul being a hard ass would be too big an issue
Lol u know CP pretty much helped OKC and then Spurs to level up right? What killing vibe are you even talking about?
Suns too (until we shipped our young guys for kd)
The vibe was wrong because they loosing. Im sure Ime know who CP3 is. They know what they doing. Look at Shai and Castle after a year playing with CP3. And they all only have good things to say about Paul.
He’s not a vibes killer. The Clippers are just frauds
The vibes on Clippers are bad only because they are losing.
There is a reason why they say winning cures all. If Chris Paul is overly assertive with too much outspoken criticism on other players, but the team is winning most of their games, that level of scrutiny is seen as constructive.
If he does the same thing on a losing team, it “kills” the vibe.
Of course, age of the team matters too. Rockets are a young team, so any type of assertive veteran behavior is often seen as a positive because it drives growth.
I think the vibes are set by their coach in this instance. And he is very much a CP guy. This would be one of the best situations for him if he wants to go there.
KD is a hoe
I legitimately have been saying since 2021 that I would rather have CP3 back than Harden.
Minnesota finding someone smaller than Rob and Conley
If Chris Paul can’t make the Wolves play smarter no one can
I mean, I would have said the same thing about Mike Conley.
I wonder who is a better player at this point in their career cp or Mc
Mike is better but having anyone who can actually be competent for another 12-18 minutes a night would be such a god send
If Conley could still contribute as a starter, it’d help but the dude was rather washed last year and is totally washed now.
I’ve lived in Minnesota my whole life and I can say with confidence that the answer is no one can
We had that 1 year when Rubio had the ACL tear. Before that devastating injury, he was making the offense hum.
There were some smart and scrappy teams under Muss (we just lacked talent and depth being an expansion team) and Flip’s teams generally played pretty smart on the whole until the season Flip got fired.
Tim Connelly might be the first NBA executive who is biased against tall people. /s
Connelly loves doing shit nobody likes. First he built the twin towers when everyone was getting smaller, and when that got more desirable, he starts trading for small ass pgs
I’m 100% behind anything he does tho, bro could trade for Cam Newton and I’d want to see it through
If only to see the post game hats, I concur
Hey he’d play better minutes than Rob
Don’t forget older too
Thought Conley was old? Lets go older!
CP3 is not smaller than Rob
i mean you can probably get him for a top 55 protected 2RP so it can’t hurt to express interest, especially if you need a PG lol.
a top 55 prot 2nd from one of these teams actually has a chance of conveying
I actually like CP3 for both of these teams more as a player-coach than an actual player, but maybe there’s something left in the tank. He wasn’t bad for SAS last year.
The Clippers paired him with possibly the least athletic big in the league. He doesn’t seem to excel in the slow non-moving offense. He even looked better playing with their rookie big in garbage time. Hopefully with better athletes and more motion he could do some work.
I think he still has some left in the tank but it’s probably around 10-12 min per game.
Luckily the Rockets will pair him with… Steven Adams?
In reality, Cp3 isn’t an awful fit as a starter with Minnesota, but he’s a tough sell for the bench because I don’t think they mask his weaknesses. Houston has enough depth that they can.
Literally anything would be better than a pick-n-pop 7 footer who can barely move and a bunch of non-shooters around him.
For sure, but the other issue is that you need some athleticism + added ball handling around him. We can blame BroLo and whatnot all we want, but opposing defenses were also just pressing Cp3 who labored to get past half court, which then led to our sets being super slow.
No way he starts over Conley lmao. He’d come off the bench for sure. This isn’t our move for Ant’s backcourt partner.
Yeah he’s not a starter anymore in general, but neither is Conley. My point is that you throw Cp3 on the bench, and he’s likely gonna continue to struggle.
People point to his success last year, but that’s in large part because Castle is a defensive stud and Wemby can clean up like 80% of blow bys.
if we get him, it’s because it’s more important for reed sheppard to learn directly from him than it is for his direct contributions to carry us or anything
hard to be worse than Conley or Dillingham
But does he want to go play in Minny or Houston, like wasn’t his whole point going home to LA?
I have seen CP3 walk in person. I don’t think he has anything in the tank give that he struggles to walk.
They can get him for the right to some european who hasnt played in a decade
Rockets would be cool
Who is this guy? Never seen or heard of him
Reddit u/CloneWarsMaul?
He’s Kevin Durant, of course.
Or are you asking about Chris Paul?
He’s the dude from those state farm commercials
Lol. I meant the guy in the video 😂
Ohhh. Thats DJ Khalid and the skinny guy is Tyler Herro
We got a real funny man ova here! What’s that funny man? You got somethin funny to say now funny man?
The floor is 3 FRP and 2 sexy ladies.
best i can do is 1 FRP and a 55yo Latrell Sprewell
Sorry brother, that isn’t enough to feed my family.
Great comment, and I’m glad this reference is still relevant to the folks in r/nba lol.
What about 1 protected FRP and we promise to plant some trees in Kawhai’s name
Hell naw can’t do that
IF Chris Paul SOMEHOW fixes Rob Dillingham’s tunnel vission
He will go down in my top 5 non-winners for sure
Dilly has had a full season with Mike Conley as his mentor, not sure Chris Paul could do much more
I love Mike Conley to the fullest, but hell no Mike ≠ CP3 not even close
Did you get to see what CP3 did to stephon castle last year? Or what he did to SGA?
CP3 helped them with their aggresive plays, attention to detail, and picking the “right” play.
No doubt that CP3 is a great leader, but did he actually teach them these things or are you just yapping?
did he actually teach them these things
SGA was picking cp3’s brain when he got traded here 😂 CP3 on SGA 1, CP3 on SGA 2:
(Here’s a car interview between Stephon castle and CP3 where he gives him his flowers and jokes about invited to a CP3 camp
You’re the pro basketball player that taught SGA and Castle how to play in the NBA?
Yes… SGA and even Lu Dort
Hell there was a top post on this top reddit yesterday where Lu Dort praised CP3.
And Conley has helped Ant a ton (who is better than Castle), hes not a bad leader and teacher at all lol
not bad sure, but cp3 has the track record, the accolades, the proteges, and the pedigree over Conley. It’s not even offensive to Conley to say it’s not really a comparison.
Shai, Castle, Victor, Harden, Blake, DJ and so many more guys owe a lot to CP3. He’s either gotten the best out of them or helped them along massively with their development.
As a Thunder fan I’m glad he didn’t stick around another year for the Spurs, if he got ANOTHER year to mentor Castle and got to mentor up Dylan Harper? Yea Spurs v Thunder WCF for the next decade would’ve ensued.
I’m not saying Mike Conley is a comparable PG to Chris Paul, I’m just saying that if a season with Conley as a mentor didn’t help Dilly then I’m not convinced CP can do much
He def understood what you said..
And I think that dude is saying they’re not even close as a mentor as well
A certain all NBA guard would beg to differ
Idk about Mike but cp is known to help players with every part of learning the game and has players who explicitly say he helped them early on
For the responses you are getting, for some reason this sub is convinced that Conley is dumb and not a leader TIL
I think they’re most likely saying CP is just better at those things, which is fair. My feeling however is that even if you grant that there is a sizeable gap between their teaching skills, a year of Mike Conley teaching should be enough to show some positive change in Dilly. The fact that it hasn’t really makes it feel like he is just struggling to learn in general, and CP being vastly better as a teacher may not even really matter.
For sure, and I’d give some credit to Mike for Ant as well. I think the main problem with Dilly is that his shot is beyond broken, which I partly blame the staff for. It was ugly (but effective in college), they tried to rebuild it from square one, now its even worse. They did it well with ants shot, but the early returns are really bad for Dillys. As a player overall, its hard to tell if hes grown because no team respects his shot. Id bet hes learned a lot from Mike, but without the shot we cant really see how he functions. I like how he fights on defense, and his quick burst is legit, but its hard to be a creator when the defense can sag off or ignore you.
Its definitely not looking great, I just don’t think its because anything Mike has or hasn’t taught him
Wth Mike Conley gonna do
Rob Dillingham has so much talent, he just needs to figure out the game
The Timberwolves are open to any high BBIQ guard with a pulse it seems.
And they need every bit of help in that regard as they can get, imo. Idt anybody expects CP3 to come in and have an impact on a night to night basis on the court, but if he could even marginally elevate the collective BBIQ of this team, I’d be open to it.
They should just Westbrook
Clippers should just release him. This seems fucked up considering they sent him home during his retirement tour. Release him from his contract and let him pick where he wants to go. Fucking Clippers.
Clippers cannot release him. That would bring their roster under the minimum of 14 players and they don’t have enough space under the apron to sign a 14th player, even on a minimum.
They need CP to agree to a buyout that creates enough room under the apron for them to be able to sign a 14th player, or to receive a player back in a trade.
Why can’t the Clippers just call up one of their G-League guys?
If you’re talking about players on 2-way contracts, they don’t count as taking up a roster spot unless the team converts them to a standard contract and the Clippers can’t do that because they’re hardcapped.
I never thought I’d live to see Chris paul be this place’s favorite athlete considering it called him a bitch for 15 years straight but damn here we are.
idk about favorite more like let the damn old man retire in peace lol
Bro how many layers of fucked are the clippers 😂😂
Why the fuck would they do that? It’s a business, Paul signed a contract.
Because goodwill goes a long way in business too
Get that guy a new camera, Jesus
The Rockets really need a PG.
They got Reed Sheppard babyyyyyyyy
We could have both
KD’s needed a consistent PG since GSW it’s insane. Brooklyn he was either injured or WorldBFlat.
Amen could learn quite a bit from a high level PG list CP3. Fr.
Okc doesn’t need a back up right?
We have so many guards and zero available roster spots
yeah can you pls stop.
wave Ousman or Topic & call it a day
waiving a cancer patient is a little insane ngl
Balmer would pay good money to be allowed to pull that trigger
Houston would be a way better situation for him.
If I’m Chris I’m begging the Clippers to release me so I can join Houston.
Siegel and Clutch Points don’t have reliable sources btw.
The thing that bothers me with the Chris Paul situation he didn’t even have to play just let him retire their Clippers get a lot of unnecessary bull crap but this is fully on them
Reed Sheppard / Amen Thompson would benefit tremendously. Unsure of other dynamics l, doubt he’d play much but those guys would undoubtedly learn a lot and as a Spurs fan I do not like that lol.
Crazy the amount of people in here who think cp3 is still some viable option lol
He’s absolutely washed offensively and defensively
He’d get cooked even in a bench role, those are two teams that want to contend and can get better minutes from someone younger
They have veterans and don’t need his leadership
Wolves already have an old washed point guard too
We don’t want him to play minutes. We want him for the same reasons the Clippers don’t want him.
Ah yes, a worse version of Mike Conley. I support this move for either team
My Rockets CP3 jersey is back in stock baby
I’ll say this once and only once in my life:
O-K-C! O-K-C!
I wish the Jazz would go after him. Between Collier and George and even Walter, they could use some extra help.
Com on thunder. Com on !!
He literally didn’t say the quote in the title
Honestly bring him in. If we want to keep the experiment going of turning DDV into a pg and pushing Dillingham then let’s get the vet with the best mind and mentorship for pgs. #WeWantCP
Chris Paul to Wolves would be great, plus Rob can learn a lot from him. But then again I would say the same for the Rockets.
Has anyone ever been on every single nba team? If not, Chris Paul should try
He is literally worth twice the minimum just off of what he can do for your younger players in terms of development.
You put him next to any one of these mentally underdeveloped young stars like a Zion, Lamelo, or a Ja, and you actually have a chance for them to take a leap.
Leadership is underrated, always.
Is Westbrook not available? He’s better than any of the current guards being mentioned I’m surprised minny wasn’t an off-season option
I mean we are just gonna use him at the last 2 minutes of the 4th so there is that.
They sent him home, just go there.
I’m confused didn’t they release him?
I thought he was cut ?
Rockets makes the most sense, two guys who needs to learn how to play point and he already has some roots there.
I hope whoever picks him up wins it all so he can get his ring*
that’s fair fuck you too buddy
One of these teams is not like the other.
I would personally love him back on OKC, but if that doesn’t happen, the Rockets would be cool.
Come back Point God
minnestoa would be a sneaky good fit for him with all those young guys tbh. (sc: MayOpebo)
You’re not serious if you trying to trade for a washed CP3.
Minnesota already has Conley lol
Gimme even more vet presence
Be careful what you ask for lol