Paul George acknowledged that his first season with the Sixers was a complete mess. George signed a four-year, $211.6MM contract last offseason.
“To be honest, it was one of the toughest seasons for me, just with a lot of adversity on the court, off the court,” George told Keith Pompey of the Philadelphia Inquirer. “The injury stuff … was some stuff I didn’t necessarily know I had going on until deep diving and finding out. There was other stuff I didn’t know that was causing my limitations, which was frustrating — not being able to do things I normally could do, and finding out the reason why. Those things are being addressed, so that’s the positive.”
George missed half of Philadelphia’s games due to a variety of injuries. He’s preparing to get back to full health by training camp.
“All in all, I’m expecting to ramp up to a great summer and hitting the ground running,” he said. “So there shouldn’t be any limitation for me in the future to train and get prepared for this next season.”
George believes he can return to an All-Star level if he can get his body right. “I know what level I can play at when I am healthy,” he said, “and obviously, it’s a struggle when I’m not healthy.”
We have more on the Sixers:
- Second-round pick Adem Bona, who appeared in 58 games during his rookie campaign, has a decision to make this offseason. Should he represent Nigeria or Turkey in international competitions? “I’ve played for the national team for almost every age group since U16 to U20. So, the Turkish national team is very important to me. Also, I’m from Nigeria. The Nigerian national team is important to me.” he told Johnny Askounis of Eurohoops. “I don’t think there’s any preference. I represent both countries equally, but there’s going to be a decision that has to be made during the summer.” Turkey will participate in EuroBasket this August and September.
- How will the Sixers handle Quentin Grimes‘ restricted free agency? Yossi Gozlan of ThirdApron.com (Substack link) tackles that subject and many others in his offseason preview, speculating that something in the range of the full mid-level (a little over $60MM across four years) might make sense for Grimes.
- In case you missed it, Daryl Morey and Nick Nurse will return next season. Get the details here.
Is Adem Bona from either one of those countries? If not then it’s a obvious NO he shouldn’t be aloud. Why is the Olympics drafting players ? This is silly. Basketball is now baskeetball
A bit surprised Morey is returning.
A bit surprised if anyone returns…fans included
Trade PG, Butler with some picks of sorts to Washington for Middleton and Smart.
Offer Grimes the bag but the 1st year needs to be 2 mil with a huge jump in his second season of the contract. Grimes and Maxey are good together.
Draft a young C and they are golden (turning 6’9 Bona into a PF) 6’9 C’s are for high school
Washington immediately says no. PG contract is Beal all over again and he would salt the youth movement. They can move smart and Middleton for picks and expiring deals already
They Do Not deserve a lottery pick.
So… Washington, New Orleans, Utah, Charlotte… you know the other tanking teams do?
Any team who has been trash since tanking with no improvements don’t deserve a lottery pickm Portland doesn’t deserve either. Pels had injuries but they should get the 8th seed at best. Hornets had opportunities to improve and didnr they should get 7.
They were a playoff team 7 years in a row until this year. Their previous longest streak was 5 years straight since 1988.
Who Philly? Why?
I hope Sixers lose their pick, they don’t deserve it.
I hope you lose weight cause your head is to fat.