City of Inglewood, CA City Events, 6 Aug 2015

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I first met Paul Pierce when he was in the sixth grade kid here in engl when attending school. We had a program here for the police department called the police activity league pal.

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When I first met Paul, he was in the ninth grade approximately 14 years of age, and he was a little chubby kid, just a real real sort of like a little butter ball, and he just began to blossom from his ninth grade year to his 10th grade year. I.

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Used to open up the gym in the morning, so that was a young patrol officer working and I had a starter chef at 72 about 435. In the morning, I had keys open the gym and I used to open the gym for the kids. I want to come and work on the game to better themselves. The.

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Beginning part of his sophomore year we were gonna, go to the cut, pile or I was good ready to help our. He.

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Was going to cut him, and but we had a Christmas tournament and all our big men were gone football as a 6-3 sophomore had to play he had to play center for us. We.

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Had went into a Christmas tournament where four of my starters, because Paul wasn't it started during that time period for my starters, had went off on Christmas vacation, so I was really forced to play, but I had a meeting with him. Prior to that and I said Paul. You know, I'm gonna probably put you back on jv's. He didn't take that he didn't take that two-timing. So he wanted to come out. He wanted to show himself when to pull himself out on the basketball court and he did just that and.

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He never got off the starting line up from there.

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Had obstacles overcome to hit obstacles overcome without having a dad in his home, so he hate you up without his father there. Although he had a very strong mother who pretty much play both roles when we're at the draft, he should have newer, didn't know, who's gonna be a number one or number two years and he was definitely gonna, be a top-five pick when it's hot when that kick came and he didn't get picked, we knew something was wrong when you fast supports another incident where he got stabbed at night.

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Clubbing boss could have been a tragic incident, but due to him and to his credit as hard as he worked the determination the time he puts in and working on his body of working on this game, how fast he bounced back at me. He was back before this happened just when he went out to get ready for training camp during the preseason. He was already back playing for them to come back from that kind of injury. You know knife inches from the start and took his life. Amazing, Paul's.

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Always talked about being a Los Angeles Laker he's always talked about you know, coming back to LA and plan, and now he's back home saw me is fabulous for him. I think this is a situation where he can go home after the games in.

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Front of your family and friends, you know not have enough tickets vision. Everybody's been asking for some I.

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Think it's a really really great experience for him. I think he's really looking forward to it. Here's.

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A guy who was a child of war therapy goes back to the community. You know you very family-oriented. He's got his kids now and his experience I talking about being a father housing during that is really really something he's really enjoying to now to be coming back home I mean his life's come full circle. His careers come full circle, I mean this. Is a dream, come true. The.

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City of Ingrid's come a long ways in the last four years. We build our finances. We rebuild our flagship, entertainment venue, the fabulous forum we fixed our streets, similar trees, but cities are much more than cities have a big social component.

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They have pride and for Paul Pierce to come back here to this region and be involved with the city of Inglewood is huge because his mere presence, for example, with Special Olympics, welcoming that we had last week, brought out so many people to see not only special olympics but to see Paul Pierce Paul Pierce is more than a multi-million dollar basketball player, he's more than a world-class athlete he's a person that embodies values and virtues of hard work leading to success and, at the same time, he's kept a sense of his roots.

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He's humble he's a gentleman he's everything we want our young people to aspire to, not just in terms of financial and that thought of success, but success as a just.

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So happy to have a young man like Paul to coach and just a positive influence, not just on the community but on his peers, he's also a role model. So just just really a great guy. Just.

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To be able to see what, though, he's grown- and you know it spirit for his experience and he accomplished it's amazing and he still got more to go. Welcome back Paul.