Paul Shirley played professional basketball for eight years for such teams as the Atlanta Hawks and the UNICS of Kazan, Russia. Paul is also the author of two memoirs, Can I Keep My Jersey? and Stories I Tell On Dates, the latter of which is now a hilarious new podcast. On this episode, Paul talks about what basketball taught him about writing. He also tells some classic stories about dodging bottle rockets on a Greek basketball court and enduring his mother's sex-ed classes at his middle school.