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    Paul Pierce is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics. He played college basketball for the University of Kansas, where he was twice named MVP of the Big 12 Tournament. Pierce was selected 10th overall by the Celtics in the 1998 NBA Draft. He is a seven-time NBA All-Star and led the Celtics to the 2008 NBA championship, for which he was named Finals MVP. Pierce overcame a near-fatal stabbing in 2000 to continue his career with the Celtics.

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    Paul Pierce is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics. He played college basketball for the University of Kansas, where he was twice named MVP of the Big 12 Tournament. Pierce was selected 10th overall by the Celtics in the 1998 NBA Draft. He is a seven-time NBA All-Star and led the Celtics to the 2008 NBA championship, for which he was named Finals MVP. Pierce overcame a near-fatal stabbing in 2000 to continue his career with the Celtics.

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    Paul Pierce is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics. He played college basketball for the University of Kansas, where he was twice named MVP of the Big 12 Tournament. Pierce was selected 10th overall by the Celtics in the 1998 NBA Draft. He is a seven-time NBA All-Star and led the Celtics to the 2008 NBA championship, for which he was named Finals MVP. Pierce overcame a near-fatal stabbing in 2000 to continue his career with the Celtics.

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    Ralfs Aukons 10b
    Miķelis Vizla 10b
    About him

    Paul Anthony Pierce (born October 13, 1977 in Oakland,


    California), nicknamed The Truth, is an American
    professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the
    NBA. He earned First Team All-America honors in his junior
    year at Kansas, and has been a starter every season since
    being selected by the Celtics with the 10th overall pick in the
    1998 NBA Draft. He is an seven-time All-Star, four-time All-
    NBA team selection and also led Boston to an appearance in
    the Eastern Conference Finals in 2002 and the 2008
    championship. He was named the 2008 NBA Finals MVP in
    his first trip to the NBA Finals.
    High school

    Pierce was raised in Inglewood, a suburb of Los Angeles,


    California, where he was the star of Inglewood High School's
    basketball team during his junior and senior years. He was cut
    from the varsity team his freshman and sophomore years, and
    even thought about transferring schools, but eventually
    decided to work harder and keep trying to make the team. He
    also participated in the 1995 McDonald's All-American Game
    alongside future NBA stars Kevin Garnett, Stephon Marbury,
    Vince Carter, and Antawn Jamison, and was a contestant in
    the game's Slam Dunk Contest, which was won by Carter.
    College career

    Pierce averaged 16.4 points and 6.3 rebounds per game in his
    three seasons at the University of Kansas, where he majored
    in Crime and Delinquency Studies, and earned MVP honors
    in the Big 12 Conference Tournament in both 1997 and 1998.
    Pierce played for Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams at
    Kansas. He entered the NBA Draft after his junior year and
    was selected with the 10th overall pick in the first round of
    the 1998 NBA Draft by the Boston Celtics.
    Stabbing incident

    On September 25, 2000, Pierce was stabbed 11 times in the


    face, neck, and back and had a bottle smashed over his head
    while at the Buzz Club, a late night dance club in Boston's
    theatre district. He had to undergo lung surgery to repair the
    damage. Nevertheless, Pierce was the only Celtic to start all
    82 games in the 2000–01 season. Also, witnesses say that
    Pierce was attempting to separate the fighters when he was
    stabbed. Tony Battie, Pierce's teammate at the time, along
    with his brother, saved him by rushing him to a nearby
    hospital after the near-fatal stabbing.
    Personal life

    •Has been featured in several video games. In the video game NBA
    Ballers, Pierce gives viewers a tour of his hometown of Inglewood
    in a helicopter over Los Angeles.
    •His half brother Jay Hosey played basketball for Wyoming, and
    another half brother Steve Hosey played right field for the San
    Francisco Giants.
    •Has a charitable foundation known as The Truth Fund, which
    lends support to children from the greater Boston area and
    California inner cities.
    •His nickname, The Truth, was accorded him by Shaquille O'Neal.
    After a Lakers' victory over the Celtics in 2001, O'Neal pulled a
    Boston reporter over and gestured toward his notepad. "Take this
    down," said O'Neal. "My name is Shaquille O'Neal and Paul Pierce
    is the truth. Quote me on that and don't take nothing out. I knew he
    could play, but I didn't know he could play like this. Paul Pierce is
    the truth."
    •Made a cameo appearance in the movie ”The Game Plan”.
    •Made a cameo in the music video "Tight Whips" by the 504 Boyz.
    •Starting on September 19, 2008, pre-recorded footage of him
    speaking and screaming is part of the Hangin' Tough encore of
    New Kids on the Block: Live tour.
    •On April 4, 2008 he had a baby girl, Prianna Lee, in Boston,
    Massachusetts.
    Paul Pierce and his fiancee Julie
    Landrum had their baby girl Prianna
    For video press here:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_pierce
    Thank you!!!

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