“CP3 is a fugly slut”
2025-26
Chris Paul
Retired
r/NBA's 32nd most loved player.
- PPG
- 2.9
- RPG
- 1.8
- APG
- 3.3
- GP
- 16
Verdict
39.2%37.6%23.2%
39.2%Negative5,323 comments
37.6%Neutral5,101 comments
23.2%Positive3,151 comments
−16Net sentimentpositive minus negative
n=13,575 comments about Chris Paul
Receipts
What the room said about Chris Paul, verbatim: the highest-scoring comments in each class.
Exhibit 01Negative.BOS flair Exhibit 02Negative.PHX flair [ESPN] A Clippers executive says Chris Paul is a “pain in the ass, injury-prone, and not good anymore,” and people around the league compare him to Ja Morant
Exhibit 03Negative.no flair I would’ve never thought CP3 would be this cooked. Just last season he was playing respectable minutes.
Method
A receipt is a top-scoring comment about Chris Paul that cleared the classifier's confidence bar
and a second pass confirming it is about him. No usernames: the site judges players, not commenters.
Fans
Of what r/NBA says about Chris Paul, flaired fans 37%, unflaired commenters 41%. Among the 14 fanbases with at least 200 comments, Clippers fans are hardest on him at 52% negative and Thunder fans kindest at 38% positive.
37.5%Flaired fansevery flair · 7,650 comments
41.5%Unflairedno flair · 5,925 comments
Who hates him most
Method
A fanbase is the flair its commenters wear. Flairs with fewer than 200 comments about Chris Paul are left out of the lists;
the tick is his rate across every flaired comment, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.
Rooms
Chris Paul was talked about most on the front page: 6,241 of his 13,575 comments, −13 net sentiment against −16 across his season. His harshest room was the post-game threads, −21 on 3% of his comments; his warmest highlights, −7 on 6% of his comments.
Game threads4% of his comments40.523.3571
Post-game threads3% of his commentsHarshest42.021.0400
Front page46% of his comments37.023.86,241
Highlights6% of his commentsWarmest34.327.3846
News39% of his comments42.122.35,275
Method
A room is the kind of post a comment sat under: a game thread, the front page, a highlight. A room is drawn when it holds at least 200 comments about Chris Paul; left out here: Lowlights (159), Daily chat thread (24), Discussion posts (23), Injury posts (14). The bar is the room's share of his comments, its split the room's sentiment. Harshest and warmest are by net sentiment, positive minus negative, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.
Timeline
Over 4-week windows, the negative share of comments about Chris Paul ran between 25% and 45%. His worst week was the week of Dec 29, 49% negative of 213 comments; his best the week of Nov 17, 45% positive.
Method
Lines are 4-week rolling rates from summed counts (Σ negative ÷ Σ comments), drawn only where the window holds at least 30 comments. Dots are single weeks, sized by n. Bands follow the season calendar.
Games
The room talked about Chris Paul in 3 of his 18 games, at least 20 comments each. Too few graded games on one side to split wins from losses. Chris Paul left the Clippers in December, was traded to Toronto and waived, and announced his retirement on Feb 13, 2026.
—In winstoo few graded wins
−39In losses61% neg · 21% pos · 76 comments
−16His season39% neg · 23% pos · 13,575 comments
| Date | Phase | Opp | Result | Min | Pts | Reb | Ast | FG | 3P | TOV | +/− | P/R/A | Comments | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 25 | @ LALL 118–135 | L 118–135 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 0 | -13 | 4/1/1 | 4,115 | 17 points harsher than his season, from 24 comments. | |
| Nov 6 | @ PHXL 102–115 | L 102–115 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1-3 | 0-2 | 0 | +4 | 2/2/2 | 575 | 16 points warmer than his season, from 20 comments. | |
| Oct 28 | @ GSWL 79–98 | L 79–98 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 1 | -11 | 0/1/2 | 1,410 | 53 points harsher than his season, from 32 comments. |