It got so bad that George’s teammate, Danny Granger, got mad at him for taking threes because of how many shots he was missing. “You know what f***ed me up my rookie year? I think I finished the season shooting like 20-something percent my rookie year from behind the three-point line, right? I was the guy that was wide open. I was taking these shots and the team used to be like, ‘What are you doing?’ I remember Danny Granger was mad at me one time for taking a shot and I was like ‘I’m wide open.’ And he was like, ‘Why do you think you wide open?’ You know when you ask the question to yourself, ‘Why do you think I’m wide?’ And I was like ‘Oh, cause I ain’t making ’em.'” – Paul George, Podcast P
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Danny Granger
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Born: 04/20/83
Height: 6-8 / 2.03
Weight:225 lbs. / 102.1 kg.
Earnings: $71,140,777 ($94,052,041*)
Born: 04/20/83
Height: 6-8 / 2.03
Weight:225 lbs. / 102.1 kg.
Earnings: $71,140,777 ($94,052,041*)
In Indiana you played with Danny Granger. What do you think was his ceiling if it was not for the injuries? Marquis Daniels: Danny was super talented he defended at a high level and had a great work ethic to go along with it. I think he was on pace to become a great player, unfortunately the injury bug showed up.
My agent told me about a pickup game. He said there would be other pros there, so I went. The first time I went, there was already a game going on. I saw K.G., Paul Pierce, Paul George, Danny Granger … all these guys I’d seen and heard about for years. And they let me run with them that day. I went back as much as I could that summer. Sometimes, when I tell my friends back home about those games, they ask if I was ever intimidated. Yeah, maybe I was a little. But I think, at the same time, maybe people forget about 2008. They forget about Spain. They don’t remember how good our Spanish national team was — we made it to the Olympic gold medal game. I was 17. Seventeen! We lost to Team USA, but they had a crazy good team … Kobe, LeBron, D-Wade, and a bunch of other great players.
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Paul George on the Danny Granger trade in Feb. 2014 that angered him … “I just want to touch on, man, on my situation. I’ve seen a guy that played for that (Pacers) organization, gave that organization everything they had, or everything he had, and was essentially traded to the dogs. And I’m speaking on Danny Granger, who was one of the better players in Pacers history. And at the time, they traded him to the Philadelphia 76ers. And this was a guy that was battling injuries, and that’s where you send him? The guy is trying to get back on his feet, trying to work back to this league, (and) you send him to the Philadelphia Sixers? Why, because that makes you better? Do what’s right by the player that’s given you everything. So (there) was a lot of that in my seven years there, a lot of that kind of played a role and (took) a toll on me on, ‘Well, what will they do to me now? Like, where would I go?’ So you know, it was, I think, God had me in this situation.
“If they can put something together in Oklahoma where they can win, will that mean L.A.’s completely out of play in free agency? No. L.A.’s always in play,” Granger said. “But it’ll be something he’ll have to consider if the Thunder can compete for a championship next year.”
