“Chris Paul’s Future with Phoenix Suns: Keep or Cut? Analysis and Insights”

This is one of the main sites of the offseason on the Arizona side: what about Chris Paul? Phoenix has two options: keep him and guarantee him $30.8 million next season or cut him off by paying him $15 million. The cactus board seems to be headed for the first option with its veteran.

The coaching site is already well underway in Phoenix. Monty Williams took the door and Tyronn Lue is tracked to join the bench of the Suns, but for the moment nothing concrete. At the same time, another project is taking its course, that of the men on the floor. And following the defeat in the conference semi-finals against Denver, one name comes up a lot: Chris Paul. The veteran point guard couldn’t hold his own in the series against the Nuggets due to a groin injury picked up in Game 2 and his early performance. postseason has been widely criticized by observers.

On the Phoenix side, we have two possibilities for CP3: cut him in June by paying him $15.8 million or keep him and guarantee him the $30.8 million he can earn this season (with a final year not guaranteed at 30 million as well). Option to keep it being considered according to Bleacher Report’s Chris Haynes, for several reasons. The first: this solution makes sense on the Arizona side because in the event of CP3 leaving, Phoenix’s financial leeway would not allow the franchise to recruit another top league leader – Kevin Durant and Devin Booker and Deandre Ayton nibbling too much of the salary cap.

Also, keeping Chris Paul and starting with him as the starting point guard doesn’t guarantee Phoenix will end the season with CP3. At 38, the point guard can continue to be a very interesting bargaining chip for the franchise, in order to strengthen the roster in the middle of the season around its two star players who are KD and D.Book. Since his last season of contract (2023-24) is not guaranteed, another team could very well recover Chris Paul to offload certain contracts and let him quietly slip away in the summer of 2024 without having to pay him a penny, thus saving 30 million in finances. Still, it is necessary that Phoenix finds its account there of course.

A time considered, the departure of Chris Paul is therefore not so close as that on the Phoenix side and we could well see the Point God with a Cactus uniform at the start of the school year.

Sources : Chris Haynes, Bleacher Report.