CP3 just pulled a Kobe?! The Clippers won their 9th straight game last night after they beat the Warriors 111-98. So what did Chris Paul do after the win?! Celebrate? Go home? Party? Nope. Check out what he did & why…
Via ESPN:
Moments after the Los Angeles Clippers recorded their ninth straight win and took a big step toward clinching their second consecutive Pacific Division title, Chris Paul could not sit still in the locker room.
He took off his jersey, grabbed a basketball and walked back to the court with his four-year old son, Chris II, assistant coach Dave Severns and a ball boy. As Staples Center was being cleaned, Paul shot for over 20 minutes after the game from every corner of the court. Severns would direct Paul where to go, the ball boy would grab his rebounds and pass it to Paul’s son who quickly passed it to his dad. The postgame routine took so long that Paul’s wife, Jada, left early as did many media members waiting to talk to Paul in the postgame media room.
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Paul had 16 points, 12 assists, eight rebounds and three steals but cringed as he looked down at the box score again and saw that he was 5-for-15 from the field. That simply wasn’t good enough, even after the Clippers defeated the Warriors, 111-98, to take a five-game lead atop the division with 16 games left in the season.
“I had to practice,” Paul said. “During the game, you wouldn’t think, but I say it all the time, I struggle with confidence and things like that. I just didn’t feel like I couldn’t throw it in the ocean, so I wanted to go shoot now.”
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