Things like this tend to surface if a guy is coming up for free agency (and that means people have agenda’s to leak things):
Reports said Chris Paul and DeAndre Jordan had a rift. It was centered around the lack of work Jordan put in to get better at free throws.
There’s nothing to the report, if you ask the Clippers’ Dahntay Jones. Which TMZ did.There is NO rift between Chris Paul & DeAndre Jordan ... despite reports to the contrary, so says Clippers teammate Dahntay Jones who tells TMZ Sports the L.A. superstars are still like “brothers.”
“Guys fight and argue on the court, but that’s just the emotion of the game,” Jones says ... “but people want to blow things out of proportion.”
“Those guys are brothers, man. They sit with each other on the plane, on the bus. If you don’t like a guy you stay away from him.”
Is there a rift? The reality, like most things in life, lies somewhere in the middle. Paul and Jordan have had their moments, but that is certainly different from something that carries over for any length of time.
The real question: Is this rift deep enough to have free agent to be Jordan seriously look elsewhere?
I can think of 109 million reasons Jordan can probably get past any issues. Doc Rivers says Jordan will get a max contract offer from the Clippers, and that’s hard to walk away from.
