Paul George: “Since I’ve been (in Boston), it’s one of those things where, man - I wish I was here a lot sooner. Not to discredit anywhere I’ve been, but since I’ve been here it’s been nothing but happiness and greatness.”
Something tells me he’s said this at every stop
Remember when he said he grew up as a Clippers fan but idolized Kobe 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Said he grew up a Clippers fans yet, when he was interviewing Ballmer on his podcast, he called Bill Walton the Clippers GOAT lmfao.
Who would be the clippers goat, honest question
I mean, if healthy he’s easily the best player in their history. Unfortunately Walton’s lower body was already fucked from Portland.
The family actually are long time clipper fans
It’s similar to growing up as a Red Sox fan while idolizing Derek Jeter.
I mean he did say that when he was doing his pre draft workout too. It wasnt the first time he claimed that
How long before he says he grew up a Shanghai Sharks fan?
You mean in this very video? Yeah I remember I just heard it 3 seconds ago
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You get traded enough you know the media drill. I remember Chris Paul getting sent to OKC and leading off his press conference by calling out some of the restaurants he likes in town out. ProMove
Tbh PG was like “well it’s weird because I grew up a Kobe fan” he could’ve just said “I’m joining a long line of players such as Paul Pierce and Tatum who grew up in LA and were Lakers fans or had Lakers as idols now coming here to say I absolutely love it”
Polite P
“Man endorses current employer.”
“Paul enjoys receiving $60M no strings attached to play basketball”
“Sorry, you did say no ligaments attached right?” - Paul George prob
ligma what !??!
Pandering P
Promotion P
Propaganda P
“I love it here! You guys pay me! I mean, the culture is great!”
Can’t wait to hear how he really feels on a podcast in a few years
“I never really felt wanted…”
“Before delivering his first assignment.”
And all my other employers were great too!
yeah but has he said such great things about his previous teams while he was with them?
(i honestly dont know)
And just like that he won me over
I bet Celtics fans wish he was there sooner. Prime PG was something else.
He’s basically the perfect Mazulla ball player
The ship has sailed on PG leading a team to a championship. He’s still a good player but no longer that lockdown defender he once was. He still has that silky smooth offensive game but he’s also not dropping 30 a night anymore.
Funny enough, I feel like his offense has slipped more than his defense. He’s still so good on defense. Maybe not the menace he once was, but still great.
Which is why, if healthy, he can be very useful for us. 3 and D guy
Yeah, his defense can still be at a near all-defensive level in any given game or series tbh. The Sixers vs Celtics series he was very elite on that end.
You have it completely backwards.
He very much is still a lockdown defender, just can’t carry an offense nightly anymore.
Which is fine for Boston. 16-18 points a night full of 3-balls is the ideal anyways.
Thanks for the breaking news. You should write articles
I was already but Ai took my job.
Oh boy, I remember him in the ECF squaring up against LeBron and thinking, this guy will dominate the league one day.
One of the best two way players of all time before his injury
Damn, good thing the Celtics have a younger better version of him to lead. PG just has to play his role as second fiddle on offense and not a sieve on defense which he’s more than capable of.
His defense is better than his offense these days. He’s a very willing shooter which is great but he also averaged like 25% on twos for a large stretch of last season
Yeah anyway his no longer lockdown defense deleted our roster a few months ago
Blows my mind that a Brown for PG trade could have happened years ago but it’s now that PG is past his prime and Brown has just reached his is when it got done lol
He is/was a great player, but in practice it often feels like the idea of Paul George is way better than the actual Paul George.
If he can be healthy (big if) he can be very valuable for us. We don’t need a number 1, we have that already
It’s Payton Pritchard
missing out on prime Paul George was totally fine, actually lol
OKC PG would’ve been a dream. Current day PG however….well, I guess bright side is he’s only here for 1-2 seasons…
I mean we tried to trade Brown for him like 5 times
Now he’s just a podcaster. I quite enjoyed clippers PG. He was one of the league best two way players. Perhaps he got satisfied with the money and lost the passion to try to win a ring
Saying this is funny because he was one of the main reason the Sixers came back from 3-1 last year vs Celtics 😭😭😭 his defense and play was actually good
I think his body just fell apart.
Meh
Prime PG was a better version of JB. He gets a lot of flack but in his prime he was a borderline 1B offensive option while playing fantastic on ball defense.
This probably undersells it.
Prime Jaylen brown was basically demar derozan but bad at passing.
Paul George is just Tatum but not good at the rim and worse at passing.
Jimmy has taken the Miami Heat to the finals twice. Let’s be serious now.
And LeBron took the Miami heat to the finals 4 times. Now wtf do the heat have to do with any of this?
What does Jimmy Butler have to do with anything?
He made it out of a lebronless east and really down east years lol. It’s an incredible achievement tho. Jb is Jaylen brown not jimmy
He’s a player that looked good, passed the eye test, but was not a winning player. Lesser version of tmac
Just because you don’t win the title doesn’t mean you’re not a winning player. He faces prime LeBron James to come out of the east for years.
I watched his seasons with us and he was one of the most winning type players I’ve seen. Game after game of nonstop winning basketball on both ends. His shoulder injuries (literally torn labrum on BOTH ARMS) fucked him bad in 2019
Are you talking about Jaylen Brown lmao?
You might’ve won the 2019 championship with MVPG and I’m saying this as a Raptors fan. His peak was higher than Tatum’s and Brown’s
Lmaooo, Jayson Tatum has multiple seasons better than Paul George.
Paul George’s 2019 regular season was better than any Tatum regular season.
That’s just not true
Eh, it half is, especially if you consider PG’s 2018-19 season when he finished 3rd in MVP voting and made 1st team all defense. 28⁄8.2⁄4.1 with 2.6 stocks and 43.8⁄38.6⁄83.9 shooting splits and just 2.7 TO. That version of PG was better than JB’s year last year (or any other season) and is on par with JT’s best seasons, and he’s made 4 all defensive teams compared to the Jay’s zero. Health has always been PG’s biggest issue (and now age), but when he was playing, he was one of the best in the NBA.
His peak was absolutely not higher than Tatum’s
Top 3 in mvp and dpoy Paul George hasn’t peaked as high as Tatum?
Celtics wanted him in 2017, per Woj
Sources: Celtics working to land both Gordon Hayward and Paul George
https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-celtics-working-land-gordon-hayward-paul-george-181020436.html
Basically everyone wanted him, he was top 3 in MVP, averaged 29ppg with elite defense on elite efficiency and was a plug in play wing that could play with everyone like a KD
I know PG has had his flaws but injuries truly fucked him, people now act like he’s been this washed
Guy was insane then
His decision to re-sign with OKC was so puzzling. Lakers wanted him to pair with LeBron and AD, would have been an amazing fit. Instead he re-signs with OKC only to force his way to the Clippers a year later. He framed it as a basketball decision, but he clearly just wanted the biggest contract possible.
he signed the max with OKC because Presti promised that he would send him to his preferred destination if OKC blew it up. probably a bit of both
I would have been happier with the trade if we got 2017 Paul George.
We all would have. Then Kyrie doesn’t throw that alleyoop to Hayward that ends up fucking his ankle. Plus the whole Kyrie saga here was a rough time.
Your guy Gordon Hayward; whatever happened there?
What he means by Happiness and greatness is $54 million per year.
He was whipping up shit in a kettle
Like actual shit?
Nah he ain’t Shaq
Alright dude whatever.
PGs mouth strikes again, not to mention dudes been there for only a second to declare he wished he was there earlier
PG always goes with the wind. Tmac was the same way
Two big what if careers
Is PG really a what if
Probably not but it’s not hard to imagine if he never gets injured in that team USA scrimmage he mightve even been a better player than he already was
Possible… I don’t think we’ll ever really know the last damage that injury might’ve done. Even just subtle overcompensations or favoring one leg can have a lot of ramifications when you’re spending a decade running up and down a hard surface. That said, a lot of his recent injuries have been shoulder related, which is hard to really imagine being related.
he’s basically the American Danilo Gallinari
How is PG a “what if” lol?
Injuries robbed him of his full potential
You can say that about almost anyone. But PG reached his ceiling imo, even with a few setbacks.
You can’t really say that about TMac. His back injuries really held him back even in his early Houston days
Idolized Kobe and always wanted to be a Clipper btw
Like saying “I love you” to a girl when you just sat down on your first date.
“I’ve never loved anyone quite the way I love you”
Yeah but it just means so much more when that man has had the experience of 4 prior marriages
PG has become such a meme but I’d love for him to do well
Dude says that about every new team he has been on. He should be a politician or something
“All my life, I’ve wanted to be in Guangdong, truly nothing else compares.”
“Ever since I had my first exposure to Covid, I’ve aspired to play for the Wuhan Wendigos. Today that dream becomes reality.”
Politician P
Playing to the crowd P
Perspective P
Positive P
Easy to be happy when you haven’t played a game yet
If it’s one thing Doc Rivers taught this man…
Have a bad game and then go amongst the average Bostonians and see how great it is
New car smell but that don’t last forever.
New player compliments new team, more at 5
Go record your podcast lil bro
This man has not said a single word of substance for like a decade.
They cloned George lol
Man excited about new job before first workday
Put him in the right mindset for the pod.
It’s always nothing but happiness and greatness before you have to actually play any games
Great city for a podcast.
Bro,you got your 💰. Don’t lie and steal.
Corporate speak
that’s my 20 games a season podcast p
I think the Celtics probably kiss the asses of their stars. It just seems like that’s what PG would like and it would make sense as to why Brown had his favorite year and was frustrated with Tatum getting the spotlight. But I also think PG is jinxing this, like he usually does.
Celtics fans are going to start hating him soon, if they haven’t already.
He is the anti-winner … who in his mind, thinks he’s a champion … even though he hasn’t won shit.
lol suck up
Why do we all pretend like this means something and not just an employee trying to stay on his nee bosses good side
lmao “stay on their good side” tf they gonna do if he gets them mad.
Bench him, cut him, reduce his minutes. He is well past his prime, I doubt he gets any special treatment
The thing is that they just traded JB for him, and JT is going to need a running mate for this season. No way they bench him, cut him, or reduce his minutes anytime soon.
Thats if he isnt washed and at 36 he probably is. Plus the Celtics did absolutely fine with just jb out there as the main guy last year, I doubt they NEED Paul George to be a “running mate” or that he is even good enough to be one anymore.
Trade him to a bad team
I’m pretty sure he has said this about OKC, LA, and Philly too.
He’s just been saying whatever his whole career
I mean, it was a bad shot.
But he shouldn’t have said it.
Oh man they’re so cooked
I wanted him on the C’s back when he was on the Pacers and Thunder, but not really as excited to have him now 7+ years later considering how much $ he makes lol.
Boston P!
Green suits him
Famous opening lines.
Podcast this season gonna be electric!
It’s always been my dream to pay for [insert club here.]
🤣🤣🤣 Paul george gonna learn today
He says something similar for every team he plays for lol
Bros is a certified glazer. Cream of the crop? Nah PG tweaking😭
Every time I find out this dude is still in the league I’m surprised. For a while he was doing so many podcasts I thought he was retired lol
He knew when the Celtics blew that 3-1 lead last season that Boston was where he belongs
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