Chris Paul
Chris Paul
Christopher Emmanuel Paulis an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association. The point guard has won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, two Olympic gold medals, and led the NBA in assists four times and steals six times. He has also been selected to nine NBA All-Star teams, eight All-NBA teams, and eight All-Defensive teams...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth6 May 1985
CountryUnited States of America
We are really trying to make a run to the playoffs right now. I feel like if we just win and take care of that stuff, those accolades will come.
This is huge for our confidence. We're in a tough situation right now where we are trying to fight for the eighth spot in the playoffs. We knew we had Detroit coming up so we really needed this one.
We're just trying to adjust to not having him out there.
I love taking that shot. The shot clock's running down, you're just out trying to make a play and fortunately the shot went in.
What I really try to do is take different pages out of different players books.
I try to penetrate the lane like Steve Nash, pass like Jason Kidd, and handle the ball like Allen Iverson. Remember, I said 'try to'.
It gives the team a lot of momentum. Guys are just playing with confidence day in and day out.
Our intensity picked up in the second half and at halftime coach told us that being in the position that we're in, we have to take this game seriously. I thought we buckled down defensively in the second half. We talked more. We got deflections. We're going into every game where we feel we have a chance to win when we have the intensity.
I was in the process of having a house built in English Turn,
When you find yourself down 21 after one half, that's a pretty big hill to come back from. However, I felt our kids battled all the way to the end and never gave in. The score ends up a little closer than it should have been, but that's a credit to our kids not giving up.
I don't care what anybody says, there's nothing like the cultural influence of hip-hop. For me, hip-hop culture is involved in everything - it's in me, in who I am, in how I dress, how I talk. It's in my son and my wife.
I realize that I'm not going to be doing interviews for the cover of 'GQ' for the rest of my life, know what I mean? I'm on TV because I play basketball really well.
Most of the time, if you ask a kid who's their best friend, it's usually a classmate or their neighbor or something, but for me, it was my granddad. Everybody knew him - they called him Mr. Jones.
I love people. I hate to be by myself.