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It has been a while since All-Star forward Paul George settled on the choice to remain with the Oklahoma City Thunder rather than test the free specialist showcase. There has been an immense suspicion that George would have engaged in joining the Los Angeles Lakers.

In the time that has past since the move, George has more than once voiced that he had at first wanted to make the move to the Lakers this past summer. As indicated by Marc J. Lances of The Undefeated, the 28-year-old by and by repeated that idea expressing that he would have joined Los Angeles had the Indiana Pacers not exchanged him to the Thunder.

"It was 50-50 on choosing whether I needed to return home or in the event that it was more intelligent to be in the circumstance I am in now," George disclosed to The Undefeated. "In any case, it wasn't exaggerated. I needed to play in L.A. That is the place I needed to go. Had that exchange never went down, had I played one more year in Indy, I would have been in a Lakers uniform."

It is a position that George has held firm to since his choice to re-sign with the Thunder on a four-year, $137 million arrangement. He has remained with the mind outline that his one year with the establishment had changed his point of view on the whole issue that pushed him to remain.

Actually, George had settled on the decision to not wander in the free specialist advertise at all consenting to the arrangement before it started and didn't take a gathering with the Lakers. This was something that he obviously felt firmly about remaining with the group.

Past that, this is a subject that been thumped to the point where George's remarks on this issue now don't add any more to the circumstance. Los Angeles is presently pushing ahead in another period with LeBron James driving the way while holding out an expectation that the group can bait in another marquee free specialist next summer while perceiving how their young center gathering builds up this season.