Despite how disappointing the Lakers' season has been this far, there's one moment their fans are going to remember more fondly than anything - when LeBron James posterized Paul George last week.
It's a moment that Paul George will unfortunately remember, too.
On the newest episode of Podcast P, Paul George gave a hilarious re-telling of LeBron James' poster dunk from his own perspective.
“Well, you know that old saying, what starts f**ked up usually ends f**ked up," George said. "So, bro, that play, I'm like, I got the ball, right? And we're going in transition. And I see T-Mann, bro, T-Mann looks wide open out of nowhere I think D'Angelo comes and takes the pass away. From T-Mann because I'm looking to throw the ball ahead to kick it to T-Mann for a wide-open corner three. Soon as I get ready to throw it, boom, D’Angelo just comes out of nowhere and takes that pass away. So now I’m like, caught, like f**k, where do I go next? Well, throw it up to the biggest motherf**ker on the floor. Like, Zu help! And it was close, almost got it over. That play almost never happened.”
If there's one thing George was happy about, it's the fact that he didn't jump during the play and find himself on the floor. If that had happened, George knows it would have been remembered as an all-time LeBron James moment.
"Yeah, no f**k that," George said. "So after I throw it to Zu or tried to get it over top to Zu, I think AD deflected it, right? AD deflects it, LeBron gets it. So it’s already– I f**ked the play up. Like, damn. So then…[LeBron] is going full speed down the court. So I see a guy to my left, I'm like, all right, let me try to cat and mouse this a little bit… Usually Bron gives it up to get it back, right? So I see he's not giving it, like, next. My next train of thought is like, all right, let me try to pick him up a little earlier. But at the same time, it's like, all right, I got to get ready to absorb the contact, too. So I'm trying to back up a little bit at the same time. I don't know, bro. It was just like a deer in the headlights. I don't know what to do right here. Before I could think about the next thing to do, I was just stuck.”
While the moment may not have been a great memory for Paul George, it's good to see he can take it all in stride. The Clippers had beaten the Lakers nonstop for three straight seasons, and LeBron was due to have a moment or two against them.
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