Bring the kiddd home
“I wanted to go home,” Paul George said Wednesday morning, hours before leading the Oklahoma City Thunder into Staples Center. “Simple as that.”
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Before leaving Oklahoma City on Tuesday, he told local reporters that the deal that landed him in the Sooner State was a win-win, but that he did not regret that his desire to play for the Lakers became public.
“All that was said was a destination I would have loved to go to,” he said. “There wasn’t a gun pointed to the head, ‘Hey, send me here.’ I just stated somewhere I wanted to go play. You ask 80, 70 percent of guys in the league if they would love to go back home and play for their city, play for their home.”
On Wednesday, George reiterated those sentiments while speaking glowingly about playing in front of friends and family at Staples Center, something that harkens back to his childhood.
“This has just been a tradition within the household,” he said, “to watch Laker games.”