Paul Murphy Shirley (born December 23, 1977) is an American former professional basketball player who last played for Unicaja Málaga in the Spanish ACB. Shirley is noted for briefly maintaining an online journal while playing for the Phoenix Suns in 2004–05.

I'm a writer whose work has appeared in places such as Esquire, The Wall Street Journal, and Playboy. My first book, Can I Keep My Jersey?, was published in 2008. Booklist said it was "remarkably insightful"; an Amazon reviewer said it was "increasingly tiresome." My second book, Stories I Tell On Dates, came out in 2017.

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One-on-one coaching with Paul. Six-week modules run by Paul, for high-flying members of business teams. My name's Paul Shirley. I played professional basketball for a decade, including three stops in the NBA. When my career was done, I moved on to writing books. That's when it dawned on me that knowledge workers are just like basketball players.

Paul Shirley is a former professional basketball player who's transformed the lessons he learned from sports into the theory behind The Process. Paul played for 17 professional teams in his nine-year career, including stops in Spain, Greece, Russia, and with the NBA's Chicago Bulls, Phoenix Suns, and Atlanta Hawks.

Paul is the author of two humor memoirs, two novels, and a how-to book. The first memoir (Can I Keep My Jersey?) chronicles three years in his stop-and-start professional basketball career. The second (Stories I Tell On Dates) chronicles an entire lifetime in his stop-and-start dating career.

On Saturday, Eustachy and many of his players are expected to be at Hilton Coliseum to watch TJ Otzelberger’s Cyclones play. One of those players arrived early — forward, Paul Shirley, who went...

Paul Shirley joins us in our latest CyCast. An All-Big 12 selection in 2001, Shirley was a member of two of ISU’s greatest teams, the back-to-back Big 12 champions of 2000 and 2001. Full video available on Cyclones.com. #Cyclones | #C5C

I have a long history of speaking to crowds about my book, about basketball, and about writing. In recent years, I've been asked to speak about two subjects close to my heart: what my experiences during and after my professional basketball career have taught me about adapting to change, and the lessons I took from being a student-athlete.