Doc Rivers: 'Chris Paul could miss first Houston Rockets game'

Doc Rivers has admitted that Chris Paul could miss the first game of the Los Angeles Clippers' playoff series against the Houston Rockets with a hamstring injury.

The guard missed part of the first half of the 111-109 win over the San Antonio Spurs before returning to score the game-winning points.

Rivers told reporters: "Someone is going to have to step up. I was thinking it's funny how coaches think with three minutes left, I'm thinking, 'OK, if we win this game, thank God I signed Lester [Hudson] because now you have two guards left.'

"We almost went big, and then we would literally have no other guards left. That was the first thing I thought.

"Chris may play or may not play the first game, but the game is Monday. My guess right now if I had to guess, I would say no, but I'm not sure."

Paul has averaged 19.1 points per game this season, and started all 82 of the team's regular-season games.