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Reporting From...Chris Paul's Big Night in New Orleans

By Alejandro de los Rios

Friday, March 6, 2009

There was a time when Chris Paul could only dream about getting his own shoe. As a kid growing up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Chris and his older brother C.J. would draw up crude renderings of what they wanted their signature shoes to look like. That dream was fed inspiration every Christmas when the brothers would unwrap the latest Air Jordan sneakers. You could say things have changed a bit in the Paul household. Instead of getting just one pair of Jordan Brand sneakers a year— ...

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