Chris Paul has been the most important addition to the Phoenix Suns franchise in a long time, following a path previously blazed by Charles Barkley in 1993 and Steve Nash in 2005 by immediately playing like an MVP while pushing the team to one of the league’s best regular season records.
In his first season with the Suns, Paul has as good a chance to make the NBA Finals as any season in his career to date. Yes, he had great teams in LA and Houston, but the West is so wide open this year that a path to the Finals is more available than ever.