Report: Chris Paul 'clears the air' with DeAndre Jordan
Chris Paul and DeAndre Jordan had messy air. It's was gross. A pig sty.
They couldn't even hire a housekeeper to tidy up. They needed a whole cleaning service. It was like the air's parents went away for the weekend and the air decided to throw a house party, but after inviting just 15 kids, the group started to get bigger and bigger until there were hundreds of people at a massive keg party. The air got really stressed and started to kick people out, but it was too late. The party was too big.
By the time everyone left the air's house, there were solo cups all over the floor and the air's parents' Buddha sculpture on the mantle had been broken by some irresponsible kid who the air didn't even know. We're talking that kind of messy.
Now, according to Ben Bolch of the Los Angeles Times, Paul has cleared the air with Jordan:
Jordan and Paul reportedly didn't get along these past few seasons, leading some to believe it was the reason DJ initially left the Clippers to agree to sign with the Mavericks, before he eventually backed out of the deal.
Now, all is good in Clipperland though. They just shouldn't throw anymore house parties.
(h/t L.A. Times)
"Fortunately, I don't read all that stuff, to tell you the truth," Paul said Tuesday of reports painting him as a difficult teammate. "I actually spent a lot of time with my family and stuff like that. I went on vacation, I was in Augusta with my AAU kids, I had to go to a funeral, I had a camp in San Diego. Luckily, I stayed busy."
That schedule, which also included a stop in Johannesburg for an exhibition game involving NBA players, has brought Paul and Clippers teammates Blake Griffin and Jordan to the campus of Nevada Las Vegas this week for Team USA's minicamp as it begins its preparations for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Paul said people questioning what can be a brusque leadership style would have angered him earlier in his career but not now, not after the two Olympic gold medals and the eight All-Star appearances in his 10 seasons.
"I'm so comfortable in my skin — I've got a beautiful wife, two beautiful kids, an amazing family — and people who know me, know me, you know what I mean?" said Paul, who turned 30 in May. "So people are going to say what they're going to say and you can't control it. But actually, nah, I wasn't mad … when all that stuff was going on."
Jordan said the alleged rift between himself and Paul has brought the teammates closer after they compared notes about what they had told other people.
"We went through a lot of stuff this summer, man," Jordan said. "Things that people said that I said about him, things that people said he said about me, which, none of them were true because we talked about it."
