Chris Paul’s response as one of the greatest guardians of all time was cemented even before the surprise, Hit trade that sent him to Oklahoma City Thunder for Russell Westbrook and a huge collection of design Picks and substitutions of choice last summer. Less certain was how much CP3 had left in the tank for a season that the contract Dreher 35 years.
Paul commented on the season with three years and 125 million dollars remaining on his contract. He had played no more than 61 regular season games over the last three seasons due to injury. Houston’s motivation to replace him was at least partly because of his determination to maintain the relationship with James Harden, which provides more evidence that Paul’s demanding nature as a teammate, makes him hard to work with.
The Capitol project, which changed hands in the Westbrook for Paul Exchange, offered an additional preparation of preparation of which Paul was no longer considered a trump card, at least not on this contract. Oklahoma City was able to poor Houston by submitting the first-round election in 2024 and 2026 (both protected 1-4), as well as the exchange of election in 2021 and 2025. after the deal that sent Paul George to the Clippers, the movement of Thunder for Paul was obviously less about the player and more about future assets.
Most people don’t even think that Paul would play a game for Oklahoma City. What did a team really need in rebuilding an old and ultra-expensive man? There have been rumors linking Paul with Miami Heat for weeks. But when the business negotiations were over and it became clear that CP3 would really play for the Thunder, few expect a race in the school series to be possible at all.
Not only did Thunder make the school series this season — they were actually better than they were a year ago with Westbrook and George. After a slow Start, Thunder was the third best team in the NBA after Thanksgiving in terms of winning power, surpassing only the number 1 Series heads (the Bucks and the Lakers) in each conference. None of this happens without Paul, who was an absolute magician on the way to one of the best seasons of his illustrious career.
The Thunder season ended against the Houston Rockets in Game 7 of their Playoff series in the first round. Now Paul is on his way to Phoenix in a successful deal that propels the Suns into the Western Conference competition.
That’s what Paul, the NBA’s biggest commercial Chip after a vintage season, made with thunder.
The Thunder were thought to be tanking without Westbrook and George. Instead, they only got better with CP3
Oklahoma City was considered a marginal championship in the 2018-2019 season with Paul George suspended on another contract extension and Westbrook out of two consecutive seasons where he achieved a triple-double. Instead, the Thunder has been good-not-great all season and saw its campaign end in the first round on an iconic shot by Damian Lillard.
The end of the Thunder in the 2019 election series made it difficult to see them again as contenders for the Championship when they regained courage, but it was certainly possible for OKC to make a deep race in the West with some adjustments to the list. George’s commercial demand for Los Angeles blew up the whole thing and positioned the franchise for a total reconstruction. After George and Westbrook were moved, most of the preseason projections, such as this one by Jacob Goldstein, have the Thunder scheduled to win 36 games with about a 20 percent Chance of making the Playoffs.
No one will doubtful that occ would be even Better this year, but that’s exactly what happened.
Oklahoma City has filled 61.1 percent of its games this season and finished with the number 5 seed in the Western Playoffs picture. A year after with George and Westbrook, Thunder filled 59.8% of its games and ended with the number 6 Series.
Credit Oklahoma City for acquiring a marksman exhibited in the front yard in Danilo Gallinari and one of the best young guards in the game in Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. The formation with three Thunder guards, which also includes Dennis Schröder, has developed into the development trio of the league, as Michael Pina explained. Steven Adams also remained useful in the middle, and the Thunder was found a gem in the non-drafted luguentz recruitment there, which turned into playing the most buzzers of the league in Game 7.
There is no doubt that was the driving force behind the surprising occ season, however. The whole success of Thunder shared with Chris Paul.
Chris Paul turned in one of the best seasons of his career
It seemed that Paul’s days as an All-Star were getting behind him into the season. Paul has not been on the Star team since 2016. There was a group of young impressionist players in the West whose turn it was. Yes, Paul has become an All-Star this season-do you remember that dunk alley-oop he threw? – but it was also much more than that.
