Chris Paul likely to demand max contract from Rockets

If the Houston Rockets thought they were going to retain injury-plagued guard Chris Paul on the cheap this summer, they were sorely mistaken.Paul will hit free agency next month. That’s about a calendar year after he turned down a Stephen Curry-like five-year contract worth about $40 million annually from the Los Angeles Clippers.According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, Paul’s decisions to turn down said deal and agree to a trade to Houston was a precursor to what he’ll demand from the Rockets this summer.“When the Rockets made that deal for Paul, knowing they would re-sign him, they made a conscious decision that they were gonna have to live with a $46-47 million-a-year salary when he’s not nearly the player anymore in his late 30s,” Wojnarowski noted. “They said we’re gonna make a run at it now, we wanna win a championship now, we’ll deal with it later. We’ll see how that plays out in their contract talks here in free agency, but Paul didn’t turn down $200 million from the Clippers because he thought that so

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