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Christopher Emmanuel "Chris" Paul (born May 6, 1985, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays point guard for the New Orleans Hornets of the NBA.
HIGH SCHOOL
Paul played at West Forsyth High School, where he was a 2003 McDonald's All-American and was named North Carolina's Mr. Basketball for 2003 by the Charlotte Observer. Paul averaged 30.8 points, 8.0 assists,
5.0 rebounds, and 6.0 steals per game as a senior in leading his team to a 27-3 record and the Class 4A Eastern Regional finals. While in a game during high school, Paul scored 61 points in honor of his grandfather,
who in 2002 was beaten to death in his own carport during a robbery[1]; one point for every year his grandfather lived.
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COLLEGE
Paul attended Wake Forest University from 2003–2005, and played under coach Skip Prosser. Paul was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Rookie of the Year for the 2003-04 season. He was
named the 2004-05 ACC Preseason Player of the Year and Associated Press Preseason National Player of the Year, and was a consensus first-team All-American in 2005. While at Wake Forest, he
tallied career totals of 948 points, 395 assists, and 160 steals.
Paul owns the all-time ACC record for freshman-season steals with 84, surpassing Duke's Jason Williams' 81 in 1999-00. One of Wake's best freshmen in history, he lists No. 1 among all-time
Wake freshmen season leaders in steals, assists (183), three-point field goal percentage (.465) and free throw percentage (.843), ranks third in both points (460) and scoring average (14.8
ppg.) He ranked third among all-time Wake single season steals leaders, fourth in three-point field goal percentage, fifth in assists and 15th in free throw percentage.
Paul was suspended in March of 2005 for one game for throwing a punch at North Carolina State's Julius Hodge that landed below the belt in the first half of a game in Raleigh, North Carolina.
* Courtesy of Wikipedia
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