A night after surpassing Scottie Pippen on the NBA’s career steal list, Sun’s point guard Chris Paul passed another Hall of Famer on Tuesday, climbing for fifth place over Maurice Cheeks.
And he’s doing it again folks! @ CP3 moves up to 5th place on the @ NBA leaderboard!
Keep climbing CP! pic.twitter.com/sKa6Fis4Aw
– Phoenix Suns (@Suns) April 14, 2021
Paul, who played for his fifth team in his 16th NBA season, had three steals in the Sun’s 106-86 win over the Heat. That gave him 2,311 for his career, one more than Cheeks in 15 seasons from 1978 to 1993.
Paul is now sitting behind Gary Payton, whose 2,445 steals are good for fourth place. This is followed by Michael Jordans 2,514 in third, Jason Kidds 2,684 in second and John Stockton’s NBA record 3,265.
The milestone comes less than a month after Paul became the sixth player in NBA history with a total of 10,000 career assistants.
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