Paul's Injury No Longer A Concern

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The NBA announced today that Los Angeles Clippers’ point guard Chris Paul has been named Western Conference Player of the Week for games played Monday, March 26th through Sunday, April 1st.

 

Paul guided the Clippers to a 4-0 mark, averaging 21.5 points on 56 percent shooting, while dishing out 11.3 assists per contest. He began the week with 25 points and 10 assists, as the Clippers defeated Paul’s former team, the New Orleans Hornets, 97-85 on March 26. Paul, who ranks third in the NBA in assists (8.8 apg), matched his season high with 15 assists in a 103-86 win over the Phoenix Suns on March 28.

 

Here is a recap of the week for : Chris Paul (Los Angeles Clippers:

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• March 26 vs. New Orleans: Scored 25 points, and added 10 assists and four steals in a 97-85 win over the Hornets.
  
• March 28 vs. Phoenix: Scored 15 points, and matched a season high with 15 assists in a 103-86 win over the Suns.
  
• March 30 vs. Portland: Tallied 20 points, 14 assists and four steals in a 98-97 victory over the Trail Blazers.
  

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Edited June 20, 2012 by Sħãlïq̵'

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For Chris Paul it is right back to business. After about a two-week break, the superstar point guard returned from North Carolina to work out at the Clippers’ Playa Vista training center Monday morning and was joined at the facility by Eric Bledsoe, who returned to work Monday as well, Travis Leslie, Trey Thompkins, Blake Griffin, and free-agent-to-be Chauncey Billups.

 

“Right now I’m trying to keep my body in the right shape,” Paul said. “It’s just trying to get your conditioning back and stuff like that.”

 

He looked lean and healthy, playing shirtless for most of the session, something he rarely did during the 2011-12 season. In addition to conditioning exercises, he took the court for games of two-on-two with Leslie, Thompkins, and Bledsoe. As assistant coach Robert Pack looked on, he also worked with the young guards for more than 45 minutes of one-on-one, battling the bigger bodied Leslie in the post, cutting off Bledsoe’s driving angles, and finding his usual creative ways to generate space and fire away step-back jumpers. Getting back in the gym was twofold for Paul.

 

First, he’s finally moving past the troublesome groin and hip injuries that forced him to miss the Clippers’ regular-season finale against the New York Knicks and nagged him throughout their 11-game postseason run.

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