Well, on a Saturday evening.

Well, on a Saturday evening, welcome to the P. H.L.Y. Sixers podcast along with Derek Botner, Kyle Newbeck. I'm Devon, as we get some news. We were waiting on the 29th to find out when Paul George makes his decision whether he opts in,

ops out. Well, we get the information just a short time ago that he is, in fact, opting out

of his final year of his deal with the Los Angeles Clippers, becoming an unrestricted free agent

and making free agency all of that more interesting as things get underway on Sunday, beginning

at 6 p.m.

So Derek, starting with you, man, as we have this emergency conversation with all the folks out there,

your initial thoughts when the news broke.

Yeah, it's, I mean, initial thoughts were like, finally, you finally made a decision.

We had been waiting around all day. Not that you expected it to come before a decision, but I'm, you know, I'm happy we finally have a little bit of clarity on where to go forward. Second thought was, I think the Sixers have a real good chance. I don't know exactly what that means. I think their biggest threat right now is him going back to the Clippers. I know the common sentiment will be that, well, they haven't offered it to them now why would they uh going forward but when you get to a deadline you tend

to find get to your make or break point find where your real limit is um will they cave will

balmer cave i don't know so i'm not entirely sure what the sixers percentage chance is

but i think it's pretty strong.

And that would be my, I guess, third reaction.

Yeah.

So to me, this means he will only be playing in one of two places next year.

Would be my read on it.

It's either he goes and stays to home, stays with the clippers, they up the ante, they give

him another year, they give him more money, the contract that as Derek alluded to, they haven't

been willing to give him.

And the perfect example of why of people being deadline motivated is that we were waiting until

445 on Saturday. The last 15 minutes that Paul George could decide on this option

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