Chris Paul in a Tar Heels uniform? How Wake Forest got the guard from West Forsyth

Posted Aug 7, 2018
Chris Paul wearing UNC colors isn’t something Wake Forest fans want to think about. But Paul, a former Wake Forest star, could have ended up in Chapel Hill if not for the dogged recruiting of the late Skip Prosser. "Raymond Felton had already committed to Carolina but they tell Chris, ‘Hey we have a commitment from Raymond, but would you want to come walk on?”" (Winston-Salem Journal)

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