Chris Paul plans to put the gold medal he won in Beijing this month next to memories he has of his grandfather, according to Sun Herald.

"I still have the basketball in a frame back home when I scored 61 points," Paul said. "This medal will go somewhere next to that."

His 61-point performance came in high school, shortly after the murder of his grandfather Nathaniel Jones.

Paul is already planting the seed to return to Team USA in London.

"We want to defend it," he said. "It was so much fun. All of us were talking in the locker room afterward about (how) we've got to get back together in 2012."