Chris Paul earns college degree
Fred Jeter | 12/22/2022, 6 p.m.
The Phoenix Suns guard Chris Paul graduated from Winston-Salem State University on Friday, Dec. 16, at Winston-Salem Fairgrounds Annex. Paul earned a bachelor’s in mass communications, according to ESPN.
Paul originally attended Wake Forest, where he starred as a basketball player from 2003 to 2005 before entering the NBA draft as a sophomore.
He returned to school across town at Winston-Salem State in 2020.
Paul had 15 points, 13 assists and seven assists in 36 minutes in the Suns’ 111-95 road win over the LA Clippers last Thursday. Around 11:30 p.m. PT, Paul and several family members took a private jet for the nearly 2,500-mile flight from Van Nuys, Calif., to Winston-Salem that took about 3 hours, 40 minutes and arrived at about 6:30 a.m. ET.
Two hours later, Paul headed to the graduation in his cap and gown.
“I didn’t want it to be about me,” Paul told Andscape after the ceremony. “I was trying to make it as normal as possible. You know, all these students here have fought their butts off for a while to get their degree. And I wanted to make sure that in no way I was trying to show them up on their special day. They had a lot of family, loved ones that’s here to support them and to see them. And I just wanted to be a graduate just like that.”
