Chris Paul has more stories to tell than basketball, and this time it is about his grandfather. It was somewhere around mid-November in 2002. Five young boys jumped a 61-year-old man, tied his wrists, duct-taped his mouth, and hit him with pipes until his heart gave up. Not a personal vendetta, but it was for the wallet. The man we’re talking about is Nathaniel Jones. Jones is the grandfather of future NBA star Chris Paul. And today, those boys are men, around the same age as the LA Clippers guard. However, they have one more thing in common.

What could be common between the criminals and the victim’s grandson? Well, all of them want to be free. And Chris Paul is ready to forgive the people responsible for his grandfather’s death. That’s not something you’d expect from the grandson of the

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