Will Chris Paul contract ruin Houston's franchise?

[celticsclay]

Chris Paul is out indefinitely with a hamstring tear/pull. It is his already his second injury of season. He signed a 4 year 160 million dollar contract this offseason (more expensive than Lebron's deal).

[Monkhouse]

Chris Paul is out indefinitely with a hamstring tear/pull. It is his already his second injury of season. He signed a 4 year 160 million dollar contract this offseason (more expensive than Lebron's deal).

Probably the worst deal of the century, when you take into account how horrible Wall's looks already.

Yeah... Let's give an aging 32 point guard that even got injured in the previous playoffs, the most lucrative super max contract.

[More Banners]

I'll go on a limb and assert no team trying to rebuild who gives a supermax is able to assemble a Finals roster due to lack of depth. Detroit with Grifffin and Wash with Wall too.

[Moranis]

I think it depends on if he is healthy when the playoffs roll around (and that he plays enough for the Rockets to make the playoffs).  If the Rockets keep getting into the playoffs and Paul is healthy for the playoffs, then, while he is overpaid, I don't think it will cripple the franchise, because they couldn't really do much with that money any way given the high salaries they are paying Harden and Capela over the same timeframe (I mean those 2 are over 60 million alone in 21-22 when Paul also expires). 

[hwangjini_1]

in response to the thread's title.....we can certainly hope so.

[BringToughnessBack]

Hamstring tear is no joke. Do we know what Grade it is? A Grade 2 could keep him out for 2 months plus. A Grade 1 is not as bad but could still keep him out up to a month. Sometimes bad hamstring tears can linger to.

[celticsclay]

I think it depends on if he is healthy when the playoffs roll around (and that he plays enough for the Rockets to make the playoffs).  If the Rockets keep getting into the playoffs and Paul is healthy for the playoffs, then, while he is overpaid, I don't think it will cripple the franchise, because they couldn't really do much with that money any way given the high salaries they are paying Harden and Capela over the same timeframe (I mean those 2 are over 60 million alone in 21-22 when Paul also expires).

starting to seem they have a very good chance of not even making the playoffs, making it as very low seed. That is the first year of the deal though! What happens next season, two seasons from now?

[PhoSita]

It's a pretty terrible contract.

Obviously, if Paul hadn't injured himself in Game 5 of the playoffs last year, and they went on to win the title, I'm sure Houston fans would say it was well worth it.

I'm sure they were expecting that Paul would give them at least a couple years of solid All-Star / borderline superstar play before he started to really fall off and have trouble staying on the floor.

This is pretty much a worst case scenario for how that deal has worked out for them.

[Moranis]

It's a pretty terrible contract.

Obviously, if Paul hadn't injured himself in Game 5 of the playoffs last year, and they went on to win the title, I'm sure Houston fans would say it was well worth it.

I'm sure they were expecting that Paul would give them at least a couple years of solid All-Star / borderline superstar play before he started to really fall off and have trouble staying on the floor.

This is pretty much a worst case scenario for how that deal has worked out for them.

They are 16-10 with him and 0-5 without him.  He clearly matters a great deal to their actual performance.  And I think they knew they might get 60ish games from him every year.  The key will be, is he healthy for the playoffs and does he make it through the playoffs.  With Paul they have a real shot at beating every team in the league that is not Golden State (at least this year), without Paul, if they even make the playoffs they are a 1st round loser type team.