Stephen Curry Says Goodbye To Jordan Poole, Welcomes Chris Paul

Poole averaged a career-high 20.4 points for the Warriors last season while shooting 43.0% from the field, 33.6% from beyond the arc and 87.0% from the free-throw line. However, the shooting guard wasn’t able to carry over his regular-season success to the 2023 postseason.

In 13 playoff games versus the Sacramento Kings and Lakers, Poole averaged 10.3 points while shooting an inefficient 34.1% overall and 25.4% from 3-point range. Draymond Green punched Poole in the face before the 2022-23 season started and the video got leaked to the public.

Paul averaged 13.9 points, 4.3 rebounds and 8.9 assists last season for the Phoenix Suns while shooting 44.0% from the floor, 37.5% from 3 and 83.1% from the free-throw line. Golden State is expected to start Paul, Curry, Klay Thompson, Andrew Wiggins and Draymond Green in 2023-24.

Paul has never won a title during his Hall of Fame career, while Curry, Thompson and Green have captured four championships and played in six NBA Finals. Green told Los Angeles Clippers All-Star Paul George on the “Podcast P With Paul George” podcast that Paul is going to make the Warriors’ offense more dynamic.

“I think he brings a couple things,” Green said. “Number one, I thought last year — and Steph said this in his press conference — we ran out of variety. And what I mean about variety is, in a team, you need to have a variety. Our team last year didn’t have a variety of ways to score and I think CP adds another thing to the menu to address the topic of a variety of ways to score. CP plays totally different than Steph, totally different than Klay, totally different than myself.”