Paul Pierce


Paul Anthony Pierce is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association . Pierce was a high school McDonalds AllAmerican and earned AllAmerica first team honors in his junior year at Kansas.

Pierce was born and raised in Oakland, California. His family later moved to Inglewood, California, where he attended Inglewood High School. He was cut from Inglewood Highs varsity basketball team his freshman and sophomore years, and seriously thought about transferring before spending extra time in the gym and becoming the star of the team by the end of his junior year. Pierce went on to participate in the 1995 McDonalds AllAmerican Game alongside future NBA stars Kevin Garnett, Vince Carter, Stephon Marbury, and Antawn Jamison, and was a contestant in the games Slam Dunk Contest, which was won by Carter. He grew up a Los Angeles Lakers fan and dreamed of playing with the Lakers.

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