Chris Paul was trending on Twitter on Thursday night after Kanye West lobbed an accusation that the Suns star had an affair with Kim Kardashian.
You never know what’s going to hit Twitter at any given time. Sometimes it’s memes about the latest NFL game circulating. Sometimes it’s Kanye West lobbing a grenade into the personal life of an NBA superstar.
In case you hadn’t figured it out, the latter was the big news on social media on Thursday night.
In the midst of a tweet storm containing varying levels of coherence, West made an accusation against Chris Paul.
“Let’s break one last window before we get outa here,” West tweeted. “I caught this guy [Chris Paul] with Kim. Good night.”
Well, that was certainly unexpected. It was nothing but surprising for NBA Twitter to see Chris Paul trending on a night when he wasn’t playing for the Suns.
Kanye West got Chris Paul trending on Twitter over an infidelity accusation
The social media reaction leaned into the comedy of the whole situation.
Chris Paul did WHAT?!
— Ry (@JustRyCole) December 2, 2022
It seems the stat sheets may be shorting Chris Paul one more steal.
— Benjamin Allbright (@AllbrightNFL) December 2, 2022
Chris Paul standing in the kitchen looking at Twitter tryna figure out how he’s going to explain that Kanye tweet to his wife pic.twitter.com/zZ7qC7jCcn
— Dylan Park-Pettiford (@dyllyp) December 2, 2022
Chris Paul enjoying a nice meal with his family and sees why his phone is blowing up pic.twitter.com/9r1AB52O40
— Chancellor Johnson (@ChancellorTV) December 2, 2022
Chris Paul is #3 all time NBA assist leader, why we surprised he got a dime?
— speedy (@SpeedyMorman) December 2, 2022
what is this image from…what sort of directory has Chris Paul and Ray Dalio in it https://t.co/sro4qUAsyy
— Alex Press (@alexnpress) December 2, 2022
Chris Paul trending and it’s not because he’s choking in the playoffs is a win.
— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat) December 2, 2022
daily update 12/1/2022
— Mike Majlak (@mikemajlak) December 2, 2022
kanye currently is rocking with: hitler, the nazis, the swastika, balenciaga, jesus, love, miami, his song “waves”
kanye currently not rocking with: elon, chris paul, pornos, cancel culture
Just go search Paul on Twitter. There are a million other tweets and memes.
Paul is going to get the headlines, but his involvement is the most insignificant of the developments from Thursday regarding West.
The rapper and would-be presidential candidate double, triple and quadrupled down on radical messages relating to Jewish people, NAZIs and more. An interview with Alex Jones, in which he praised Adolf Hitler, was just the beginning of another day of wild rhetoric.
West was suspended from Twitter for 12 hours for violating the platform’s rules when he posted a graphic containing a swastika.
So in many ways, this Paul situation is a smokescreen. This wasn’t just one famous person exposing another. This was a lot bigger and more serious than that.