Draymond Green praises Chris Paul with “ultimate winner” praise.
recently, Chris Paul shocked the basketball world when it was announced that he would retire from the sport, effective immediately. The news came later Paul parted ways with the Los Angeles Clipperswith the team eventually trading him to the Toronto Raptors, who then waived him.
Although Paul ended his future Hall of Fame career without an NBA championship, one person did not holding it against him is fourfold Golden State Warriors champion Draymond Green.
“A lot of people say that Chris Paul didn’t win a championship, he’s not a winner. When you compete against him, what he did with teams was one of the ultimate winners. You just need so much luck and things to go your way to win a championship,” Green said on The Draymond Green Show on YouTube, via Hoopshipe.
Green’s praise for Paul didn’t end there.
“CP3 is one of the ultimate winners, it’s amazing to compete against him, it’s amazing to call him a friend, just to play a part of his career and not that I played a part in creating his career, but that I was a competitor in his career and helped him build his story,” he added.
Indeed, it generally takes a good amount of luck to win an NBA championship, something Green experienced several times with the Warriors, most notably in the 2015 NBA Finals, when Golden State faced a Cleveland Cavaliers team that was without two of its top three players.
Paul came very close to winning that elusive ring back in 2021, but in the end, his Phoenix Suns blew a 2-0 lead in the NBA Finals against the Milwaukee Bucks and ended up coming up short.
Still, as Green noted, that shouldn’t do much to diminish Paul’s legacy as one of the best point guards of his generation, and a lock who will one day make the Hall of Fame.
2026-02-19 19:49:00
