Paul George recalls LeBron dunking on him in a recent game: "What starts f**ked up usually ends f***ed up"
Paul George is one of the best perimeter defenders in the current NBA. The L.A. Clippers star is a four-time All-Defensive team member. But during the Clippers' most recent game against the Los Angeles Lakers, PG looked helpless against a 39-year-old LeBron James going downhill and dunking on him.
George looked back at that not-so-proud moment during the latest edition of his podcast episode and explained what was going through his mind at that moment.
"An old saying, 'What starts fu**** up usually ends fu**** up," said PG. "AD deflects it, LeBron gets it so it's already 'I fu**** the play up' like damn! So now he's going full speed down the court. So I see a guy to my left, and I'm like, 'Alright let me try to cat and mouse this a little bit."
The cat and mouse got PG
PG's Clippers teammate Ivica Zubac, a guest at the show, told George that the 'cat and mouse' game got him. George agreed. According to PG, LeBron usually gives the ball up on a fastbreak and looks to get it back on a lob pass to throw it down. But as the play progressed, that didn't happen.
"So my next train of thought is let me try to pick him up a little earlier, like you know?" added PG. " But at the same time, it's like I gotta get ready to absorb the contact, too. So I'm like kinda trying to back up a little bit at the same time, it was just like a deer in the headlights. I don't know what to do right there. Before I could think about it, the next thing to do, I was just stuck."
Zubac went on to tell George that it wasn't that bad from PG's side because he got a little bit out of the way and didn't get dunked over by LBJ. Zu added that it would have been a different story if George fell down after the dunk. That could have been worse, just ask Jason Terry.
Why did LeBron dunk on you like that?
The 2009 NBA Sixth Man of the Year owns the distinction of being on the wrong end of the most vicious dunk of LeBron James' career. The Jet once said that being part of that highlight dunk has made him even more famous, but on the wrong side. Terry says he gets recognized everywhere he goes but always gets asked about that LeBron dunk.
"The worst thing about it is," narrated Terry."Every time I'm in arenas or I'm at the grocery store, little kids come up to me, 'Ay, Ay, aren't you Jason Terry?' Yeah, yeah, that's me. 'Why did Lebron dunk on you like that?'"
Arizona alumnus was part of the 2011 Mavs title team that humiliated LeBron and his Heatles squad. Jet continued to trash-talk James in the next couple of years, but on March 18, 2013, James shut Terry up for good with a poster dunk he will never forget. That play immortalized Terry as LeBron's worst dunk victim, something that Paul George can take solace in.
