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Despite Nice-Guy Act, Paul a Killer at Heart

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CHRIS PAUL IS an on-court assassin with the social network of a sorority sister. He is the NBA's most complicated man. Just ask the many ex-NBA stars who seem so incensed by all his fraternization. To the old guard, the ones who remember when the league's top players were barely able to be in the same room without slugging each other in the face, all this tweeting and texting and bro-cationing and celebrity bowling is a disease sucking the life out of their league. Just ask Charles Barkley.

 

"I don't think players play for the same reasons we did," says Barkley, camped out in the Staples Center green room with ex-rivals Kenny Smith and Shaquille O'Neal, sounding more than a little bit like an old man yelling at clouds. "For us, it was the...

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