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'Definition of a leader': How Thunder guard Chris Paul has guided Players Assocation through turbulent times

Chris Paul and Michele Roberts joke that they begin and end their days with Zoom calls, but it’s too close to the truth to be all that funny.

The chain of communication is dizzying.

Roberts will be on a call with Paul, who’s on a call with a league executive, who’s on a call with Disney, who’s on a call with who knows who in the NBA.

Roberts, executive director of the National Basketball Players Association, can’t think of a day since mid-March when she and Paul, president of the NBPA, didn’t talk.

“Oh, God,” Roberts said Friday night at the end of another long week, “he’ll never get rid of me.