Average of 28+8+4, selected for the Double First Team! If you choose 100 more times, the Clippers will still exchange SGA for him

After the Thunder eliminated the Timberwolves 4-1 and advanced to the finals, Clippers reporter Farbod Esnaashari was sarcastic on his social media. He believed that if the team had not traded SGA back then, the playoff results might be better than they are now.

In the summer of 2019, the Clippers used SGA+ to match contracts + 5 first rounds + 2 first round swap rights to get Paul George from the Thunder.

In the past two years, although George has often become the target of public opinion, if the Clippers choose 100 more times, I still firmly believe that the Clippers would trade George with the SGA, which was only a second-year student at the time.

Many fans may have forgotten that George was a veritable top-tier league giant before joining the Clippers. In the 2018-19 season, George made 77 appearances for the Thunder in the regular season, and averaged 28.0 points, 8.2 rebounds, 4.1 assists and 2.2 steals per game, and was finally selected for the best team and best defensive team of the season.

Let me ask, what's wrong with George when the Clippers used a large number of chips to be used to make this move? If you have to "find the trick", it can only be said that the Clippers are not very lucky. During the years when George and Leonard worked together, they would get injured from time to time, resulting in the Clippers' lineup being uneven as soon as the critical stage of the playoffs.

In short, there is no need for Clippers reporter Farbod Esnaashari to hindsight. If SGA stayed in the Clippers back then, he might not have been able to grow into an MVP-level super giant, because playing around Leonard, SGA would not have been able to get unlimited fire.