克里斯保罗拿下了32分、7个篮板和6次助攻，他还抢断2次。布雷克-格里芬26分、12个篮板和6次助攻，JJ-雷迪克10分。替补出场的贾马尔-克劳福德17分。

马刺逆转未果。考瓦伊-莱昂纳德拿下了18分6个篮板，蒂姆-邓肯11分11个篮板，托尼-帕克10分1次助攻。替补出场的马科-贝里内利11分，马努-吉诺比利10分。

马刺在最后一战失利，从第二掉到了第六，失去了首轮主场优势。

不过在常规赛最后16场，马刺胜出了14场，一改此前的低迷状态。

快船在最后15场，也胜出14场，排名一度升到第二。最终以第三的身份结束，首轮有主场优势。

马刺五次夺冠，但从没卫冕成功过。而在NBA历史上，以常规赛第六的身份夺冠的球队，也只有19xx年的火箭。

首轮就碰到快船，马刺打得非常艰难。

开场后，马刺的配合仍如行云流水，只可惜投篮感觉欠佳，连续不中，而快船内外开花，三名外线球员都命中三分，以16-8开局。马刺连续三分不中，首节三分球6投全失，本节过半时，他们以10-20落后。在本节最后4分27秒，马刺甚至未能投篮命中，本节以18-30落后。

首节马刺21投仅6中，三分球6投全失，罚球12中6，快船命中率超过50%，三分球6投4中。

马刺不会一直低迷，米尔斯和吉诺比利在第二节开始后相继命中三分，他们打出10-0的攻击波后，只以28-30落后。外线球员逐渐找到感觉后，马刺甚至反超，本节过半时，邓肯接贝恩斯传球，上篮得手，马刺以37-35领先。取得领先后，马刺又陷入困境，此后近5分钟未能投篮命中，快船打出10-0后，以45-37超出。本节还有1分54秒时，乔丹送出一记大帽，得意地挥拳庆祝，不过此后马刺开始“砍乔丹”战术，取得不错的效果，一度将差距缩小到3分。乔丹在本节将结束时还是罚中了两球，快船以49-43领先。

帕克上半场状态平平，但他在第三节果断出手。本节中段，他连续三次投篮命中，不过在防守上，马刺也拿快船没办法，格里芬篮下暴扣，本节过半时，快船仍以59-53领先。帕克此后又投篮不中，而队友也连续偏出，在5分钟内，马刺只投中一球，快船内外开花，打出16-6后，一举以75-59拉开了差距。莱昂纳德投中一记压哨三分，马刺前三节仍以64-79落后。

马刺只得不断在外线开火，好在状态回升，米尔斯、格林和贝里内利相继得手，在比赛还有7分36秒时，将比分追成了81-90。格里芬连投带罚还以3分，此后他又抢断得手，保罗投中一球。乔丹也立功，抢下进攻篮板，补篮得手，快船打出7-0，以97-81再度拉开差距。

快船顶住了马刺的反击。雷迪克投中一记三分，比赛还有4分38秒时，保罗强突，飞身投篮命中，快船以102-85保持大比分领先。

第二篇：克里斯保罗

克里斯-保罗

三大理由阻止保罗的排名上升....

A. 今年夏天肯定会有球队给他开出一纸8000万至1亿的合同，不管是快船、小牛、火箭还是湖人。

B.保罗的右膝是没有外侧半月板的，也就是说，“保罗右膝的关节处的保护组织无法支持他做出所有本可以做的动作。”（欲知详情，戳我），下一份合同到期时，保罗就是一名拥有12年职业生涯的32岁老将了.....问题就是，保罗届时最大的任务就是和他右膝的伤病做斗争。

C. 大家好，我是圣保罗教堂的一名普通传教士，现在我将向大家详细介绍我们教堂的大主教克里斯-保罗：他是我见到过的最好的控球后卫。过去的两年里，他在一名与自己实力极不匹配的教练麾下打球，他从没有遇到过真正完美的队友，他倾尽自己的一切仍无法阻止球队的失败。但是他的性格也许......额.....不那么惹人喜爱？他对别人有着很高的要求；有时候会有自我优越感；他会毫不犹豫地在18000人面前当众“羞辱”自己的队友；他经常对队友指手画脚，要求他们应该怎么做，简直像一名暴躁的婚礼策划师；他在比赛时经常怒气冲天；在过去的两次季后赛中，当球队陷入被动，他会做出夸张的肢体语言，就好像在咆哮，“就怕猪一样的队友——我自己来！”

“我必须信任队友，帮助他们打出信心”和“我不出手就赢不了球”之间是存在着微妙平衡的——以赛亚-托马斯可谓深谙此道，微笑刺客就是凭此

招和他的坏小子军团在1987-1991间纵横联盟。——但是不管在新奥尔良还是洛杉矶，保罗一直无法参透其中的真谛。也许保罗真的会成为现代版的大O——自身过于强大和苛刻，导致队友习惯性地龟缩在其身边。大家都知道，大O一直到职业生涯末期才第一次推开总决赛的大门，这还是因为他到密尔沃基遇到了贾巴尔才完成的。八年来，保罗从未带队进入过分区决赛，我们是不是可以从中看出点什么？这绝对是个好问题，是吧？我问了自己的每一个细胞都搞不清楚为什么保罗和格里芬会产生矛盾，为什么连续两年，洛杉矶航母会完全迷失方向导致最终坠毁。虽然问题可能出在教练尼格罗的身上，但是这依旧令人感到如此的匪夷所思——当你的球队中拥有联盟最优秀之一的球员时，你的球队是不可能自我迷失的。

再说一遍，我们现在已经来到了榜单的前十，对球员吹毛求疵绝不过分。克里斯-保罗绝对优秀，我在MVP票选时将他排在了第四。如果今夏保罗去了达拉斯，在里克-卡莱尔的指导下，在德克、库班以及一批精挑细选的角色球员的帮助下，保罗一定会变得更棒。然而，如果保罗继续留守洛杉矶：另一名羸弱的教练，“空接之城”的思想熏陶以及一个完全畸形的球队？对此我真的不敢苟同。鉴于快船队不受待见的历史以及自己的健康隐患，已经在联盟征战八年的圣保罗该好好考虑一下自己的未来了。大家等着瞧，也许cp3还会呆在洛杉矶，只不过是天使城的另一支球队而已。【作者注：别排除CP3加盟湖人队的可能性哦。哥这里解释一下他们如何完成这一操作：假如他们特赦科比，将加索尔送给火箭清出空间（比如就换一个莫泰尤纳斯回来），那么他们可以省下490

0万的工资，然后队里还有Metta World Peace, Steve Nash, Steve Blake, Chris Duhon, Jordan Hill, 和Gasol的替代品。这足够签下保罗再续约霍华德了，当然前提是他们呢都少拿点......由于这里是洛杉矶，他们完全会同意。译者注：席梦思这个大快船黑！】

Everything You Wanted to Know About Chris Paul's Knee

I'm not an orthopedist. I'm not a doctor. I don't know much about the human knee at all. But, since the Clippers first showed interest in Chris Paul the question of his injury history, particularly the condition of his right knee keeps coming up. There's been a lot of rumor and innuendo that hinted that Paul's knees were progressively degrading, similar to what happened to Brandon Roy. Could this be true? Did the Clippers just trade the house for a player who might be forced into retirement in just a few short years?

Chris Paul, like most players doesn't like to talk about his injuries, which was pretty evident in an Clippers otherwise pleasant introduction of Paul last week. Paul handled every question with grace and aplomb until one reporter asked him about the health and condition of his knee. He glared at the reporter and said (something like), "You wanna play? Let's go. I'm ready to play."

So, what's the truth about Chris Paul's knees?

How many surgeries has Chris Paul had on his knees? - Paul has had one knee surgery, in February 2010, on his right knee. Apparently the lateral meniscus (the one most basketball players tend to damage) was torn. The surgeon, renowned orthopedist James Anderson was unable to repair the cartilage, and instead chose to remove it. Paul's left knee is fine and has never known a surgeon's knife.

Human knees have two C-shaped pads of cartilage at the bottom of the joint between the large bones of the leg. They lubricate the ends of the femur and tibia and act as "shock absorbers". (Zach Lowe published a solid article about NBA players and their menisci here.) Damage to the meniscus is fairly common among basketball players. The preferred method of repair

is generally to sew the tear together or clip the damaged tissue away and leave as much cartilage in place as possible.

(The Clipper's own Eric Bledsoe tore one of his menisci this past fall. His knee was repaired by the same James Andrews. I've been unable to determine whether the meniscus was removed, repaired, or cut away. Like

I said, teams and players don't like to talk about it.)

Why did they remove the meniscus rather than cut away or repair the tear in Paul's knee? - Hard to know. We don't have access to the medical reports. What I've read indicates that Anderson thought the meniscus was

irreparable so he removed it. One pretty scary issue has arisen... that the team or the player might have made a decision to remove the cartilage rather than repair it because the rehab is generally much shorter in the case of removal rather than repair. Did Paul or the team decide to take the quick, more dangerous exit ramp? Bill Simmons brought that up issue here. But I've found no information that the decision was anything other than an operating room choice made by Paul's surgical team... and, understandably, I suppose, they're not talking.

Is Paul's knee progressively deteriorating? Pro athletes, basketball players in particular put a great deal of pressure on their knees. Lowe's article conjects that few heavily experienced NBA players have not suffered some knee damage in the course of their playing careers. Chris Paul has had one of the two menisci removed from his right knee removing some of the cushioning. Different athletes respond differently to meniscus surgery, but most recover very well. Removing the lateral meniscus reduces stability in the knee. But proper rehabilitation and conditioning can go a long way to insuring Paul's knee stays healthy.

Eventually, and this is my opinion, it seems likely Paul will suffer some form of osteoarthritis... when that might happen, or if it might happen during his playing career... is unknown.

Is Paul's knee injury similar to Brandon Roy's? Yes and no. Brandon Roy's knees have been operated on six times, the first time in high school and all four of his menisci have been completely removed. Paul is missing one meniscus in his right knee.

Is Paul's knee in somekind of "bone on bone" state? We hear a lot about this, but the phrase "bone on bone" is misleading. This link is a detailed post written by an orhopedic surgeon for BlazersEdge. The term "bone on bone" is a graphic depiction of roughly what's going on with Brandon Roy's knees but the medically correct term is "osteoarthritis", which doesn't sound nearly as scary as bone-on-bone. Are Chris Paul's large leg bones rubbing together in the absence of cartilage? Apparently not, but there's no cartilage in there keeping them apart either.

Is Chris Paul is a candidate for micro-fracture surgery? Maybe. Here's an article from Basketball Prospectus written by Will Carroll about micro-fracture surgery. MFS is still somewhat a radical and relatively new technology, where surgeons put tiny holes and fissures into the bones of the knee that help blood reach parts of the knee that don't normally see a lot of replenishing blood flow... aiding the growth of protective cartilage. But the cartilage isn't the same kind of cartilage that forms the meniscus. In the case of Brandon Roy, he flew to Los Angeles to visit Dr. Neal El Attrache (the guy who repaired Blake Griffin's knee two years ago). El Attrache sent Roy home, saying the micro-surgery wasn't

necessary... because it wouldn't do any good. The menisci couldn't grow back because there's nothing left to grow back. Micro-fracture surgery is generally considered a court of last resort for players with severely injured knees. It's worked for some players (Amare' Stoudemire, Jason Kidd) not so much for others (Chris Webber, Anfernee Hardaway). There's a list of players who've had the surgery, in the Basketball Prospectus article that's pretty interesting.

What about a meniscus transplant? Good question. This may be an option, someday. Marshall Faulk had cadaver cartilage inserted into his knee, but only after his playing days were over. No active professional athlete has had a meniscus transplant.

What about miracle German knee technology, the thing Kobe Bryant had done this summer? This is interesting stuff, but it's very new and there's varying opinions about its effectiveness. The idea is that you draw a bunch of blood from the body, centrifuge out the platelets and concoct an

oxygen-rich concentrate and inject it back into the area you want to help, in this case the knee. The concentrate is supposed to reinvigorate and strengthen the joint. Does it work? People disagree as to its

effectiveness... common sense would indicate that it wouldn't encourage a missing meniscus into healing. But parts of the knee are blood starved and it might encourage regrowth.

So, should we be worried about Chris Paul's health, specifically the condition of his right knee? It's understandable if unfortunate that Paul, his doctors, and his former team have released so little information about his injuries. We know he was out for 37 games in 2010 after the injury, apparently tried to come back too soon, then wore a large and unwieldy knee brace for part of last year. Speculation grew that there was no cartilage remaining in the joint or that he would need further surgery. Neither of these rumors were true. And Paul stopped wearing the brace in games mid-season last year, took the Hornets to the playoffs, and seemed to have all or most of his old skills back.

But historically, Paul doesn't miss many games. In the four seasons before the injury he missed a total of 24. Last year he played 80 games (missing two because he suffered a concussion). And there's another thing about Chris Paul that's important to remember. While he's lightning fast, he's a player who relies on his brain as much as his body. Like Steve Nash or Jason Kidd (or Larry Bird or Magic Johnson) his greatest asset has little to do with physical prowess. Though his scoring numbers have fallen since his injury, his court-awareness and leadership haven't flagged a bit. He even somehow managed to drag a David West-less Hornets team into the playoffs just last year. He might not be quite as quick as he once was, might not be cut as explosively, but his skills are still extraordinary, and his greatest asset, his brain, has absolutely nothing to do with his right knee.