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“Y’all stay locked in, let’s see Chris Paul pull the fake hurt move down a dub”: Pat Bev predicts CP3’s injury before the game, NBA Twitter names him the new Woj

Akash Murty
|PublishedMay 16, 2022

"Y'all stay locked in, let’s see Chris Paul pull the fake hurt move down a dub": Pat Bev predicts CP3's injury before the game, NBA Twitter names him the new Woj

Is Chris Paul a bigger choker in the Playoffs than James Harden? The latter at least doesn’t seek injury as an excuse after losing a series

Chris Paul is undoubtedly one of the best point guards to ever play the game of basketball. But whether he’s “The Point God” will now be up for debate, having lost his 5th Playoffs series from a 2-0 lead.

We mean no disrespect to the man who has led all his teams since 2008 to the Playoffs except for 1 year. That’s 14 years of post-season in a 17-year NBA career, an astonishing record in itself.

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But he has also been in some of the best teams of the NBA in those years and has lost far too many Playoffs series from a commanding position while citing an injury after the loss.

And barring this season, the former Clippers guard played 70 or more games in all those postseasons where he cited injury after getting eliminated in the playoffs.

Patrick Beverley predicted that Chris Paul would be citing an injury after he loses yet another Playoffs series

Again, not trying to put a dent in his legacy, just stating facts. CP3 did go through numerous injuries in almost all of his postseasons, and some of them even needed surgeries in the off-season.

But an injury jinx in 5/5 years when his team had a 2-0 lead is just not viable for even a made-up story. Timberwolves point guard Patrick Beverley predicted that we’ll again hear a CP3 injury even before Game 7 started.

And so NBA Twitter called him a fortune-teller and the new Woj (Adrian Wojnarowski).

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After the beating at the hands of Luka Doncic’s Mavericks, CP3 has said that he’s not going to “retire tomorrow” and is again going to run it back next year.

But, if they couldn’t do it after being the best team in the league, wouldn’t the other teams fancy their chances much better than they did this season?

About the author

Akash Murty

An Electrical and Electronics Engineer by degree, Akash Murty is an NBA Editor at The SportsRush. Previously a Software Engineer, Murty couldn’t keep himself away from sports, and his knack for writing and putting his opinion forward brought him to the TSR. A big Soccer enthusiast, his interest in basketball developed late, as he got access to a hoop for the first time at 17. Following this, he started watching basketball at the 2012 Olympics, which transitioned to NBA, and he became a fan of the game as he watched LeBron James dominate the league. Him being an avid learner of the game and ritually following the league for around a decade, he now writes articles ranging from throwbacks, and live game reports, to gossip. LA Lakers are his favourite basketball team, while Chelsea has his heart in football. He also likes travelling, reading fiction, and sometimes cooking.