CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Chris Paul has done almost 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.
The star of this week’s “Sports Legends of the Carolinas” multimedia project, Paul has only one major hole in his basketball résumé — an NBA championship. After being traded to Golden State in June, 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. Paul, then a high school senior, scored exactly 61 points in his first high school game after the murder — one for each year of his grandfather’s life.
