Chris Paul has done nearly everything there is to do on a basketball court. He grew up in Winston-Salem, starred at Wake Forest, was drafted No. 4 overall in the 2005 NBA draft and then went on to become a 12-time NBA all-star and a two-time Olympic gold medalist for Team USA.
Paul has only one major hole in his basketball résumé -- an NBA championship. After being traded to Golden State in the summer of 2023, the 38-year-old point guard hopes to rectify that in the company of fellow stars like Steph Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green.
Paul recently published a bestselling book called "Sixty-One: Life lessons from Papa, on and off the court” to honor his grandfather, Nathaniel Jones, who was murdered in Winston-Salem in 2002. The book is named for a specific game that Paul played in 2002. Then a high school senior in Winston-Salem, Paul scored exactly 61 points in his first high school game after the murder -- one for each year of his grandfather’s life.
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