CP3 despite conventional wisdom has been very good when the team has needed him to step up in the playoffs. Despite losing in 6 games to the Bucks, he averaged 22/3/8 on 55/52/75 in the finals despite playing through an injury.
Devin Booker who was the first option averaged 28/3/4 on 54% TS.
He played through Covid? I don’t think so. Why would the league risk getting every member of each team sick as well as fans?
He missed the first two games of the WCF with Covid and he was clearly affected by it for at least the next two or three games. We saw guys take a while to recover from the affects of Covid after the fact, so I don’t think it’s unfair to say he was playing through Covid in the Finals. You don’t have to be contagious to still suffer its affects.
The reports are that COVID ran rampant through that Finals and if it had gone to game 7 I don’t the Bucks could have even fielded most of their players. Thanasis for sure tested positive and was out that game, and he had apparently unknowingly exposed quite a number of Bucks players.