page_title: Chris Paul
section_title: Awards and honors
hierarchical_section_title: Chris Paul / Awards and honors
caption_attribution_description: Chris Paul of New Orleans Hornets, semi-final game against Spain at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
context_page_description: Christopher Emmanuel Paul is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association. He has won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, an NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award, two Olympic gold medals, and led the NBA in assists four times and steals six times. He has also been selected to ten NBA All-Star teams, eight All-NBA teams, and nine NBA All-Defensive teams.
  Paul was a McDonald's All-American in high school. He attended Wake Forest University for two years of college basketball, where he helped the Demon Deacons achieve their first-ever number one ranking. He was selected fourth overall in the 2005 NBA draft by the New Orleans Hornets, where he developed into one of the league's premier players, finishing second in NBA Most Valuable Player Award voting in 2008. During the 2011 offseason, Paul was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers, only for the transaction to be controversially voided by the NBA. Later that summer, he was dealt to the Los Angeles Clippers instead.
context_section_description: NBA
  9× NBA All-Star: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
  8× All-NBA Team:
  First Team: 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014
  Second Team: 2009, 2015, 2016
  Third Team: 2011
  9× NBA All-Defensive Team:
  First Team: 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
  Second Team: 2008, 2011
  NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award: 2013
  NBA Rookie of the Year: 2006
  NBA All-Rookie First Team: 2006
  College
  First team consensus All-American: 2005
  No. 3 retired by Wake Forest
  2× All-ACC Team
  All-ACC First Team: 2005
  All-ACC Third Team: 2004
  All-ACC Defensive Team: 2004
  All-ACC Freshman Team: 2004
  ACC Rookie of the Year: 2004
  All-ACC Tournament Second Team: 2004
  United States national team
  2× Olympic gold medalist: 2008, 2012
  FIBA World Championship bronze medalist: 2006
  USA Basketball Male Athlete of the Year: 2004
caption: Paul runs the offense at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing
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