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HOW DO YOU KNOW ... WHO'S BETTER?

By Ric Bucher
ESPN The Magazine

Thursday, October 23, 2008

For all the times they've crossed paths, weaving what is now an inseparable braid, there has never been a pull tab of trash talk between Deron Williams and Chris Paul. But now Williams is standing in the middle of a hotel ballroom, dressed in his Jazz road blues, waving his arms and shouting at Paul. A few days earlier, Paul had let rip on Williams in similar fashion. A juicy rift in the making? Nah. Neither actually heard the other; each was just following a photographer's instructions to go ...

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