Chris Paul
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Um,
I'm at a high school game a Friday night watching the football team play.
And I get a phone call from my parents.
My brother called first to tell me that he was coming back home.
And I was like, what you mean you're coming back home?
And he said my granddad was sick.
As I was going to the car, a cousin stopped me and told me that they had found him murdered.
And November 19th ended up being the funeral.
And the 20th was the first game of my senior year.
And I scored 61 points in that game.
And my grandfather was 61 when he died.
But you threw away the last, you could have got the last shot, but you didn't.
Yeah, I had 59.
I had 59.
My career high up to then was like 34.
Wow.
Right.
So it was absolutely an out-of-body experience.
But we were actually playing against my mom's old high school and all my family was in town for the funeral.
And yeah, I had 59 points.