The purpose of the charity event is to raise money for Chris Paul's foundation and of course to spend some time giving back to the community. You see Winston-Salem is Chris Paul's hometown.
Why couldn't he be from Bolivar, Tennessee? I would have loved to have something like this happen in my hometown.
Paul's charity event was kicked off with a concert featuring rapper/actor Ludacris on Thursday and followed up by the dedication of a learning center and the unveiling of 10 new computers at the local Boys and Girls Club on Friday.
On Saturday there was a charity pro-am bowling tournament, a sanctioned PBA event that teamed up some of the biggest names in small market NBA with actual professional bowlers.
Participating in the bowling event was none other than Paul himself, Lebron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Rudy Gay of the Memphis Grizzlies, Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat, and Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma Thunder. That's a heavy hitting lineup.
According to Sean Deveney/Tom Ziller of 'The Sporting Blog', the full event will be shown on ESPN in October so be on the lookout for that.
It's good to see people giving back to their communities.
It's even better to see these kinds of things happening in small towns like Winston-Salem and more importantly to the Jungle, involving our own small market NBA heroes.
Big ups to Chris Paul, Lebron James and everyone else involved in helping Paul make his event successful.
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