Now that the NBA has topped a champion for the 2023-24 season, groups can get on to the enterprise of bettering their rosters and giving themselves a greater shot at profitable all of it subsequent June.
Whereas this low season market could also be much less engaging and loaded, there may be one star who might be obtainable: Paul George.
The Los Angeles Clippers standout has a participant possibility for subsequent season, and he might additionally signal an extension to stay with the membership past that.
NBA insider Chris Haynes mentioned on SiriusXM NBA Radio that George deciding what to do that offseason might be the massive domino to fall that may then dictate what different groups do.
“It could be a big domino effect depending on what Paul George decides to do”@ChrisBHaynes joined @TermineRadio and @Jumpshot8 on the Finals final week and detailed the ramifications of Paul George’s choice this summer time because the low season formally will get underway pic.twitter.com/H7rtUkRkqd
— SiriusXM NBA Radio (@SiriusXMNBA) June 18, 2024
George is a perennial All-Star, and even at age 34, he might be a serious addition to an NBA membership if he decides to depart Los Angeles.
The workforce most linked to him is the Philadelphia 76ers, who’ve an excellent roster however may have one or two extra items to turn into a real championship contender.
George was traded to the Clippers 5 years in the past at across the similar time they signed two-time NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard as a free agent, however regardless of typically being picked to succeed in the championship sequence or win all of it, they don’t have anything to point out for it.
They reached the Western Convention Finals simply as soon as, and since doing so in 2021, they haven’t even received a single playoff sequence.
Each George and Leonard are injury-prone, and George has a historical past of being very inconsistent within the playoffs.
But when George had been to go to the Sixers, he wouldn’t be relied on there as a lot as he’s with the Clippers, which might take strain off of him whereas additionally giving him maybe his finest shot ever at a world title.
