Chris Paul Opts In; Then Traded To Houston

[Jadoogar]

Why did he inform the Clippers of his plans? He could have signed with Houston without having them trade anything, right? Doesn't this just make the team he's going to weaker?

What was his incentive to tell the Clippers? Beverley and Williams would have been really good guards to have in their backcourt along with CP3.

Maybe to free up an additional $12M in payroll this year for another move he feels is better than those two players? Honestly don't know but that could be one reason.

He will also have the option to sign for 5 years next offseason now

[ProfessorJM]

Couldn't George do the same with the Pacers. Opt in in, then Lakers give Pacers Deng/Clarkson to match salary.

Well yes, except the Pacers wouldn't want Deng for free I would imagine, seems like they could get better assets even for a one year rental.

[og15]

Didn't see this coming at all, but things just got interesting.

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[An Unbiased Fan]

Stephen A reporting that CP3 thought about going to Cleveland, but it couldn't get done because of the Griffin firing.

What a dumb move by Gilbert.

For who? Kyrie? The only star who can actually play with Lebron's style. They lucked out

[Alienware]

Paul-Harden is going to be a disaster. Neither guy wants any part of playing off the ball.

Paul will 33 during 2018 playoffs and is due for a big injury tbh. ://

What do you mean due?
He's already been injured a lot of times, in Playoffs too.

[GoldenState4Life]

Why did he inform the Clippers of his plans? He could have signed with Houston without having them trade anything, right? Doesn't this just make the team he's going to weaker?

What was his incentive to tell the Clippers? Beverley and Williams would have been really good guards to have in their backcourt along with CP3.

Incentive is bird rights, lower cap hold for next year free agency, and new $200 million contract.

[ProfessorJM]

Why did he inform the Clippers of his plans? He could have signed with Houston without having them trade anything, right? Doesn't this just make the team he's going to weaker?

What was his incentive to tell the Clippers? Beverley and Williams would have been really good guards to have in their backcourt along with CP3.

Maybe to free up an additional $12M in payroll this year for another move he feels is better than those two players? Honestly don't know but that could be one reason.

He will also have the option to sign for 5 years next offseason now

Nod, that's huge because if he loves the Rockets it allows Bird Rights to sign above the cap and have flexibility, and if this experiment blows up badly, he can still make another move next year anyway.

[mszymko]

Outside the Line reporting right now that Rockets are also trying to acquire PG, developments expected throughout the day

[MastermindLV]

Why did he inform the Clippers of his plans? He could have signed with Houston without having them trade anything, right? Doesn't this just make the team he's going to weaker?

What was his incentive to tell the Clippers? Beverley and Williams would have been really good guards to have in their backcourt along with CP3.

Cause this way he can still get the Supermax next year right?

[mtcan]

Now Houston will try and go after George hard now.

NOW?

Maybe later...

[ReginaldDwight]

Clipper in the lotto next year for sure now. Shocking that they wont move on from Doc Rivers at this point.

[Mr.Raptorsingh]

I wonder how Doc feels 'bout all this.

[Shady Franchise]

Clipper in the lotto next year for sure now. Shocking that they wont move on from Doc Rivers at this point.

Glad this didn't happen earlier, as the Magic would probably have hired him to some sort of GM role.

[MartinToVaught]

Patrick Beverley‏Verified account @patbev21 1h1 hour ago
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Let's get it Clippers!!! Let's get it!!!!


Sam Dekker‏Verified account @dekker 1h1 hour ago
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Houston, thanks for welcoming me with open arms. I gave my all every time I was on the court. Time to get to work for LA! #Clips

They are taking it well

I'm low-key excited to see what PatBev does on the Clips. We were a soft team in the Big Three era. Beverley is the type of tough, scrappy player we've been lacking. He will also improve our terrible defense.

[Ckay]

I wonder how Doc feels 'bout all this.

All part of the plan.

[WhateverBro]

Why did he inform the Clippers of his plans? He could have signed with Houston without having them trade anything, right? Doesn't this just make the team he's going to weaker?

What was his incentive to tell the Clippers? Beverley and Williams would have been really good guards to have in their backcourt along with CP3.

Isn't it pretty obvious? They wanted to shed Beverlys, Lous and Dekkers salary. Watch them find a taker for Ryan Anderson and then have enough space to land someone big in free agency and just fill out the roster using minimum contracts. Morey always goes big and him letting go of these players are clearly an idication of something bigger brewing. Morey has to know that he isn't getting better value players in free agency compared to the contracts of Beverly, Lou and Dekker.

[HoopsterJones]

There goes Harden's chances at MVP next year.

[Nowitness]

Wow........big move for HOU, guess the Clips had to get what they can

[Forte IV]

I'm looking forward to Chris Paul finding out no one plays defense in Houston.

[rockets22]

Outside the Line reporting right now that Rockets are also trying to acquire PG, developments expected throughout the day

Supposedly sticking point is capella