I JUST HAD TO “PAST THIS LOVING REAL TRUE HISTORICAL STORY” BY NBA GREAT CHRIS PAUL AND HIS FAMILY AND HIS “GRAND DADDY”=”DADDY”!!
HAVING been a “Mechanic”, then a “Master Tech./Tech Specialist”, myself, and relating to the descriptions of Chris Paul’s “GRAND Daddy’s” hands and the Oil and Grit and Dirt and Working the Long Hours and the “Cuts/Scars/Beat UP Knuckles/Burned hands and fingers, etc…Well,
Make Sure to GO Get Your Own Copy, Audio, or Kindle Edition Copy!!!; of Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court
By the NBA superstar: A powerful and unexpected memoir of family, faith, tragedy, and life’s most important lessons.
The day after future NBA superstar Chris Paul signed his letter of intent to play college basketball for Wake Forest, he received a world-shattering phone call. His grandfather, Nathaniel “Papa” Jones, a pillar of the Winston-Salem community where he owned and operated the first Black-owned service station in North Carolina, was mugged and ultimately died from a heart attack resulting from the assault. His funeral filled the largest church in the county, which held over one thousand people. He was sixty-one years old.
The day after burying his grandfather, Chris was coping the best way he knew how: by playing basketball for his high school team. After pouring in shot after shot, his last attempt was an airball purposely flung out of bounds from the foul line before Chris exited the game. The next day, local news headlines declared that he fell six points shy of the statewide single game high school scoring record. But he accomplished exactly what he set out to do: scoring sixty-one points, one for each year of life lived by his grandfather.
In Sixty-One, Chris opens up about life beyond basketball and the role his grandfather played in molding him into the man and father he is today. He’ll speak about the foundation of faith and family he built his life upon, what it means to be a positive light within your community and beyond, and the importance of setting the proper example for future generations. Most importantly, Chris will talk about his home, Winston-Salem, and the close-knit family and village that raised him to become one of the most respected leaders in all of sports.
SOMETIMES “DADDY/FATHER” IS NOT THE “BIOLOGICAL SPERM CONTRIBUTOR” TO A PERSON’S LIFE, AND MANY TIMES I CAN BE A “GRAND FATHER/GRAND DADDY”, OR A “STEP DADDY”= SOMETIMES A NEIGHBORHOOD “MENTORING MAN” AS MY “LATE/GREAT BROTHER-IN-LAW”=”TAPPIN”, WAS TO SEVERAL NEIGHBORHOODS’, CHILDREN. SO, I OFTEN REFER BACK TO THE GREAT MUSICAL SONG, BY The Winstons – Color Him Father 1969
SOOO: INSTEAD OF HAVING THE “S”, ON OUR CHESTS, IT’S MUCH BETTER TO HAVE “THE HEART AND SYMBOLIC “L” FOR “LOVE” ON OUR CHEST’S AND OUR SPIRITS!
