It was a tricky night time for Chris Paul in Sunday’s 118-103 Sport 4 loss to the Pelicans.
After getting chippy with Herb Jones all through the sport, Paul went to supply the Pelicans rookie a hand when knocked down within the fourth quarter — and Jones wasn’t having it.
He sat on the bottom and made a face whereas dismissing the Suns veteran’s hand, and waited for his Pelicans teammates to assist him up.
Only a few minutes earlier than that, Paul was known as for a flagrant-1 foul on Jones, after the rookie stole a cross and went in for a layup. Paul swatted Jones’ arm on the best way to the basket, and followers inside Smoothie King Middle roared with boos.
The rookie and the vet have been going at all of it all through the Suns’ Sport 4 loss. Paul exchanged phrases with Pelicans star Brandon Ingram early within the third quarter and Miles Bridges got here between the 2.
Paul scored 4 factors in 35 minutes of the first-round Western Convention collection that's now tied 2-2. He added 11 assists and three rebounds in one of many worst playoff performances of his profession.
Jones, in the meantime, recorded 13 factors, three assists, and two rebounds because the Pelicans rookies ran circles round Paul and the Suns — who're with out Devin Booker. Booker is anticipated to overlook a number of weeks with a Grade 1 proper hamstring pressure in Sport 2.
Jose Alvarado, who signed with the Pelicans final August after going undrafted, celebrated his sneaky steal on Paul from behind late within the fourth when the Suns have been down by 16 factors.
“I received him. I received him,” Alvarado stated after the sport. “That’s one factor I wished to do really, I received him on my checklist.”
Sport 5 is in Phoenix on Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET.
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