NBA 2K19 Player Rating Revealed For Recently Resigned Oklahoma City Thunder Forward Paul George
5x All-Star Paul George shocked many in the NBA world this past summer when he opted to re-sign a four-year contract with the Oklahoma City Thunder over joining LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers.
In one of many surprising moves this past offseason, Paul George decided to re-sign with the Oklahoma City Thunder for a four-year, $137 million contract extension instead of jetting out west to join the Los Angeles Lakers, which until the end of June had seemed like a foregone conclusion.
He recently explained his reasoning for not even taking a meeting with Magic Johnson and the Lakers, in length, during the currently ongoing Team USA mini-camp in Las Vegas, "The reason why I didn’t (take a meeting) is that coming down to free agency and before it was about to open (on July 1), I felt really good where I was at. I felt I was in a good place with Oklahoma. I wanted to come back to LA. That story was true. The narrative on that was true. That's where my heart was. But this year, being in Oklahoma, I felt really good about the situation, I felt really good going forward, and I didn’t want to waste nobody’s time and take a meeting. And now I’m straddling the fence, putting more stress and more pressure on the situation. I felt good about it. I felt great where we were at, so I decided to do it early, to get it over with, and start to build. I didn’t get that chance to last summer, because I got traded late in the summer. So I never got that chance to start fresh, to work to get better with Russ and work to get better with the Thunder. So I wanted to attack that early and get ready for my career."
George, who NBA 2K19 awards with an 89 overall player rating, is a 5x NBA All-Star and was voted the 2012-12 Most Improved Player of the Year. He's also made third team All-NBA in four of his eight seasons in the league and has made at least one of the three All-Defensive teams in three of the past eight years. Last year, he averaged 21.9 ppg, 5.7rpg, 3.3 apg, 2.0 spg, and 0.5 bpg.