NBA. Chris Paul in the Rockets. Houston also has a superdream
As many as seven basketball players have turned the Houston Rockets, by gaining from the Los Angeles Clippers one with the platinum of recent years Chris Paula.
Sam Dekker, Patrick Beverley, Lou Williams, DeNndre Liggins, Darrun Hilliard, Montrezl Harrell, Kyle Wiltjer, selected in the first round of next year's draft and 661,000. Dol. They had to give up the Houston Rockets to get the Los Angeles Clippers from Chris Paula, one of the biggest NBA stars.
- Good morning, which positions you with the highest level of good for the team. The NBA is in the arms race. Or you'll take part in it, or you look at it from the side. We feel James Harden is at the best of his career, Chris Paul, and talking to his favorites, "says Daryl Morrey, general manager of the Rockets.
32-year-old Paul has been playing NBA since 2005. The Hornets' starter career in New Orleans, 2011 was a Clippers rider. Nine times played in concert with the stars, four times was the best undercurrents, the hex led in terms of catches. He won gold at the Beijing Olympics and London, but in the NBA play-offs did not succeed no odniho. His father never passed the second play-off round.
Paul Rockets' positioning has earned the NBA's second star, alongside James Harden. - Never in the team not enough playmakers or stars. He is one of the best players and if that is not possible then it is in trouble, "said coach Mike D 'Antoni, I do this task, can be reconciled on the Harden and Paul floor, are in the top ten in the league of time Spent with the ball .
The Clippers lose the star but are not exactly losers in that exchange. By the end of June, Paul had terminated his contract. The LA team could have lost a star for no good, and so he won players, some of which could be issues related to the new system or use in other exchanges. Paul, by shuttle transfer, agreed to a spare extension of the contract for a year. Rockets, by exchange could have come to fruition, the day before they made five transactions.
The Clippers' goal in the coming months is to warn Blake Griffin, who has resigned from his contract last year, and has since 1 July checked his proposals for him. The free player is J.J. Redick.