[Ed: This is in response to This post]
By Bobby Lull:
Chris Paul is an excellent basketball player. One of the best. But “the best”? I (and most, if not all sensible NBA fans) beg to differ. He’s an excellent player who can control a game and is certainly leading the Clippers to new heights. His presence on the Clippers will be an absolute boon to the development of Blake Griffin, and the potential for a truly captivating Lakers/Clippers rivalry is definitely exciting.
He is the best point guard in the NBA, despite Derrick Rose’s immense skill set. But there’s another player in the league, one whom you are slightly too hasty to dismiss, who deserves the crown of “best.” “LeBron can’t control a game the way Paul does”? Come on, man! Let me steer your attention to something that happened before you began diligently watching the NBA, before this alleged era of Chris Paul and “Lob City” (a phrase whose sudden and violent death I fully support, by the way) came upon us:
