Welcome into another edition of Mystery Crate.

I'm Chris Wittingham, joined this week by Tom Habersrow, who is going to present

what is now a theme here at MetalLark Media and at Levitard in Friends, which is he's

kind of pieces these essays that are built up by our immensely talented roster of reporters,

writers, broadcasters.

You've heard from Kate Fagan, you've heard from Howard Bryant, and you've heard from

Tom Habersrow as well throughout the NBA playoffs.

And you wanted to close with one more piece from Tom, and not only has he gone and done

like a whole written thing, there's guests in this.

This is like a full on reported piece.

And Tom, well, welcome you in now.

I'm sensing a theme here because the last one you did was on Chris Paul.

And this one is also about Chris Paul.

Now he happens to be going very far on the NBA playoffs, but is there perhaps a special

connection between the two of you?

We went to college together.

It's a small school, so you kind of wake forest university is like the second smallest D1

school in America.

And so it kind of feels like high school sometimes when you're a student there.

I've actually been to Wake Forest before.

I visited the campus before.

I love Wake Forest.

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