PLAYA VISTA, Calif. — As a little man who has become great in a big man's game, Chris Paul has consistently challenged those bigger and stronger than him.
Those moments often feature Paul getting knocked down but scrambling to stand up for himself and fight back before he can even process if he might be hurt or failing.
For all his skill and fashion and commercials and baby face, his real style is to scrap.
And long after his five-turnover debacle in Game 5 of the Western Conference semifinals, followed by the Los Angeles Clippers' elimination in Game 6 back home against the Oklahoma City Thunder, Paul still wants a piece.
"It would be nice if we could just start the playoffs tomorrow," he said Monday at the Clippers' media day event. "But we've got a lot of work to do before that."
It was a telling comment by Paul, whose inability to win more than a single playoff series in a season has become a legit stigma.
Paul has had plenty of bright spots in his postseason career, but the truth is that playoff opponents can game-plan against him and minimize him because of ...
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