– Chris Palmer, ESPN The Magazine
Collison is averaging 18.6 points, 8.3 assists and an exhausting 38.5 minutes in the 23 games he’s started while Paul’s been out for injuries. He set a franchise rookie record with 18 assists on Jan. 30 and chalked up a triple-double eight games later. And it surprised no one when he was named Western Conference Rookie of the Month for February. "He’s lucky I got hurt, isn’t he?" jokes Paul.
Collison has been so Paul-like, in fact, that some court whisperers suggest he has made his discontented teammate expendable in New Orleans. Collison, wisely, treats that kind of talk like a good rook should. "I don’t think people should be saying that kind of stuff," he says. Were Paul to leave, no one would miss him more than Collison would.
((Sigh. Discontented teammate? Why ruin a good article like that?))
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