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NEW ORLEANS -- As the New Orleans Hornets continue both their first West Coast swing of the season and their best start in franchise history, Chris Paul has made his new-found joy in the only NBA home he's ever known clear. The 11-1 record going into Monday's game against the L.A. Clippers is, obviously, the motivation for his saying to FanHouse, "Yes, I'm happy.''
That came as no surprise to one of the two men charged with securing Paul's' happiness after what seemed on course to be an ugly, LeBron-style break-up. On the surface, there seemed to be little Monty Williams -- a first-year head coach and the youngest one in the league -- and Dell Demps -- a first-time general manager who got hired a month and a half after Williams -- were equipped to do to bring Paul back around.
Clearly, Demps and Williams did something right between the summer and now, even if they don't take much credit for it now.
"After talking to Chris, I never got the impression that he wanted to be traded,'' Demps said as he sat in an interview room in New Orleans Arena after the Hornets' win over Cleveland last Friday. "After talking to him, I thought that he wanted to win. The things we talked to him about were -- (we said,) 'We could tell you this and tell you that, but we want to put together a group that's ready to win for a long time.'''
Source: http://nba.fanhouse.com/2010/11/23/new-hornets-brain-trust-demps-and-williams-got-paul-to-trust/
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