<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">After Wake Forest guard Chris Paul, the last of the top three at the position to audition in New Orleans, strutted his stuff at the Alario Center, General Manager Allan Bristow said his mind was clear. Not on whom he would choose -- Paul, Illinois' Deron Williams or North Carolina's Raymond Felton -- but that the Hornets would prosper from whoever was available with the fourth selection of the draft Tuesday. "We've been struggling to try to get the insurance to know we're going to have a good player," Bristow said after Paul's impressive workout. "The last couple of weeks, and with Chris coming in, it pretty much assures we're going to get an excellent player, a caliber of player that you'd want at four." Bristow was almost speaking as though Paul's performance had helped make up his mind on whom the Hornets would pick. "I didn't say that. I just said he's in our mix," Bristow said. "How our order is . . . we don't know who's going to be there at four. . . . But realistically, I think he's got a good chance of being with us next year." All that would suit Paul, a Winston-Salem, N.C., native, just fine, he said, despite the fact that he admitted following a workout last week with the Charlotte Bobcats he'd love to play there. "I think I could" fit in New Orleans, said Paul, an early entry who turned 20 on May 6. "Charlotte is close to home, and I've been in North Carolina my entire life. I'd be lying if I didn't say I didn't like that team also. The draft is a week from today. I'm starting to get butterflies." </div> Source
Chris Paul should impress a lot of teams because he is good player and is going to be a star and future all-star in the league.
