It’s hard to remember when Chris Paul was our first NBA hero.
It’s been more than 11 years since CP3 played his final game in Oklahoma City colors, for the 2006-07 Hornets, who went back to New Orleans. Fourteen months after that emotional farewell, the Sonics moved to town, and everyone from Hugo the Hornet to Chris Paul became, in the words of Natalie Cole, someone that we used to love.
Down in New Orleans, then in Los Angeles, Paul became an iconic NBA superstar. The Point God, they called him, because he was a throwback. The closest thing to Jason Kidd or John Stockton that the contemporary game provided.