Veteran point guard Chris Paul will miss multiple games in the Suns‘ second-round series against the Nuggets, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link). He is expected to be reevaluated in one week after undergoing an MRI on Tuesday.
Paul suffered a groin injury during the second half of Phoenix’s Game 2 loss to Denver on Monday, which left the Suns with a 0-2 deficit in the series. The Suns are preparing to play without their floor leader in Games 3 through 5, Charania adds.
The injury appeared to occur with just under five minutes left in the third quarter when Paul attempted to box out Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and grabbed at his left groin afterward (NBA.com video link).
Backup point guard Cameron Payne, who was dealing with a lower back injury when the postseason began, played nearly 17 minutes on Tuesday after logging just eight minutes in the Suns’ first six playoff games. As long as he remains healthy, Payne figures to take on a larger role, while Devin Booker will likely have more ball-handling responsibilities.
Paul has a history of injuries in the postseason. The future Hall of Famer has previously missed eight career playoff games due to health issues.
This series will be over in a week lol
He quit. He realized KD is an overrated joke and the series is over. Same as Luka. KD and Kyrie are the same. The just want the season to be over so they can move on from them
DoDtoughguy has spoken.
Unfortunately.
The Suns and Grizzlies karma’d themselves into their current situations. Both teams acted like they were the “2023 frontrunners” when GSW literally won the title. How can you not win the title, watch the Warriors win it all, but then turn around and say “everyone is chasing us, we are the team with the target on our back”??? You did this to yourselves.
Everyone on this thread is clinically insane. Do we even watch the same league?
No, you watch that 2k where KD and Kyrie were racking up championships in Brooklyn cause you had it on easy mode
No, I live in reality, where I don’t try to convert my highly improbable speculations into fact.
I hope you’re trolling, because if you really believe that a ringless NBA all-star would give up in the middle of the second game of a postseason series, I have some serious questions
Wrong, you’re delusional. Go back to your 2k
Happens every year…
Yep…seems like every playoff season huh?!
Another excuse. Just remember people were saying he was better than Curry. CP3 isnt a winner, Curry is.
Yeah people said that years ago. Any more predictions from the future? Lol
Yeah, I’m sure people said that 10 years ago when he was better than Curry. Just a few years ago everyone thought CP was done and had the worst contract in the game with RW. Then he became good again with Phoenix but no one claimed he was better than Curry at that point. Not even Cliff Paul said that.
Death, taxes, and a CP3 injury in the 2nd Round.
CP might just want to hang it up. He still makes big money on those (now, way overexposed) ads. Lots of golf to play if you’re decently healthy at 37.