For all the impending Dwightmare (Season Two) talk going on in NBA circles at the moment, Dwight Howard is not the best free agent hitting the market this summer. And it's not even that close.
Instead, that moniker goes to Chris Paul, the NBA's best point guard and one of the game's best pure point guards in history. While the expectation throughout the 2012-13 regular season was that Paul would re-up with the Los Angeles Clippers this summer, that no longer looks like a sure thing.
How? Clippers owner Donald Sterling has gone full Sterling already this offseason. Already derided as one of the worst owners in modern NBA history, Sterling has seemingly made it his No. 1 goal to ruin his once-hapless franchise's ascent to the title of "best team in Los Angeles."
How did he do that, you ask? Well, by throwing his best player under the bus, that's how. When asked by the Los Angeles Times' T.J. Simers whether the firing of coach Vinny Del Negro was done "just to hang on to Chris Paul," Sterling all but confirmed that it was.
"I always want to be honest and not say anything that is not ...
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