The Houston Rockets are willing to offer their point guard Chris Paul, a new contract, but their new owner Tilman Fertitta does want to pay the 33-year-old the maximum salary for five years, reported FOX Sports on Friday.

According to FOX Sports' Chris Broussard, things have already been intense between the Rockets and Paul. Though the team promised a five-year maximum salary contract last summer, when they acquired Paul through a seven-for-one deal with the Los Angeles Clippers, the arrival of the team's new owner might have changed the situation. 

Though ESPN's Alykhan Bijani said his source with the Rockets replied with LOL emojis and called it "non-story" when asked about the news, there were reasons to worry about the possibility of Houston losing Chris Paul.

Paul is already 33-years-old and this may be his last chance to sign a big contract. Though Adrian Wojnarowski said Paul, also known as CP3, is currently focused on recruiting LeBron James for Houston and paying no attention to his own contract, it does not mean he will give up tens of millions US dollars, especially when he deserves the money.

Paul chose not to opt out of his last year contract with the Clippers last summer, so the Rockets had to acquire him through a trade, instead of the free agent market, which would have been a heavy burden to the team's payroll. Furthermore, with Paul on the team, the Rockets had a franchise-record 65 wins in the 2017-18 season, made it into the Western Conference Finals and almost knocked out the Golden State Warriors. It is not overstated to call Paul the game-changer behind all this.

However, Houston has their own concerns. Paul has already missed multiple games in the playoffs in the past two seasons because of injuries, including the critical Game 6 and Game 7 against the Warriors. At his age, the chances of him getting hurt will grow bigger as time went on. Meanwhile, his time on the court could become shorter as the team has to pay him more. Forty million dollars on the payroll is a worrying number for any team in the league.

The Rockets also has other issues to deal with. Their center Clint Capela will become a restricted free agent this summer and is already on many general manager's list of targets. It's true that Capela is a role player with distinctive advantages and disadvantages: he is a good finisher and able to perform effectively performance without much possession without needing lots of touches, but Capela is unable to do almost anything on offense by himself and is overestimated on defense. It will take a premium contract to keep him for sure, but Houston knows that if they do not offer the contract, there will be others waiting in line.

Perhaps that's why the Rockets will match any offer sheet Capela signs this summer, according to ClutchFans.

One thing for sure, if Paul is not happy with Houston's offer, like Capela, he will be favored by many teams including the Los Angeles Lakers that came close to getting him in 2011 before the league called off the deal for "basketball reasons." Magic Johnson and Rob Pelinka have been chasing Paul George, LeBron James and Kawhi Leonard for a while, why not add another to the list?