{"id":189054,"date":"2025-07-23T06:46:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T06:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/189054\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T06:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T06:46:20","slug":"sixers-star-paul-george-changes-stance-on-jazz-rookie-ace-bailey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/189054\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers star Paul George changes stance on Jazz rookie Ace Bailey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;[Ace Bailey] wants to do it his way \u2026 I hate being that person to be like, \u2018Oh you should\u2019ve done this.\u2019 Everybody has their own path.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PG opens up on how Ace handled his pre-draft process. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/crLlRcZ0Go\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/crLlRcZ0Go<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Podcast P with Paul George (@PodcastPShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PodcastPShow\/status\/1947355972638249326?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 21, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/utah-jazz\/26\/\" data-autotag=\"b47c1f60-983a-4f05-b662-93d89a8ac7dc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Utah Jazz<\/a> rookie Ace Bailey caught a lot of flack for his draft strategy leading up to the June 25 night. He canceled a workout with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\/\" data-autotag=\"b3f2a355-8d98-44c0-a603-3f9a2d8bc375\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a>&#8211;who held the No. 3 pick&#8211;as well as workouts with every other team who had an interest in the Rutgers star.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey fell to the Jazz with the No. 5 overall pick and will look to make an impact in Utah. He averaged 13.5 points and 7.0 rebounds in two summer league games&#8211;both in Salt Lake City&#8211;for the Jazz.<\/p>\n<p>Sixers star Paul George&#8211;who was a staunch Bailey supporter&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/sixerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/sixers\/2025\/06\/24\/sixers-paul-george-gives-thoughts-on-ace-baileys-draft-strategy\/84334283007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">questioned his draft strategy<\/a> leading up to that night. On the latest episode of &#8220;Podcast P with Paul George&#8221;, the Sixers&#8217; star changed his stance on the strategy:<\/p>\n<p>I want to kind of retract what I said. How can we get on a kid that kind of knows what he wants? We&#8217;re not in his shoes. He wants to do it his way. He&#8217;s good enough, he&#8217;s got the talent, he&#8217;s gonna go where he wants to go. That&#8217;s his decision. It could have backfired, but it didn&#8217;t. He&#8217;s still in a great situation; he still gets to showcase what he could do. He had a great game too. He went crazy, showed his potential, a flash of it.<\/p>\n<p>Time will tell if Bailey will turn into the star player that many believe he can be with Utah. The Sixers, in turn, selected Baylor&#8217;s VJ Edgecombe with the No. 3 overall pick as he looks to join a talented backcourt in Philadelphia. Bailey will look to give the Jazz that cornerstone piece they need to continue their rebuild.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;[Ace Bailey] wants to do it his way \u2026 I hate being that person to be like, \u2018Oh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,10543,224,10544,7,2856,423,6,67,61,134,2612,6221,678,207,3817,18,132,66,83,422,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-189054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-76ers","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-ace","10":"tag-ace-bailey","11":"tag-bailey","12":"tag-basketball","13":"tag-george","14":"tag-jazz","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-overall","18":"tag-overall-positive","19":"tag-paul","20":"tag-paul-george-basketball-player","21":"tag-philadelphia","22":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","23":"tag-philadelphia76ers","24":"tag-player","25":"tag-positive","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-sports-news","28":"tag-utah","29":"tag-utah-jazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114901207229454606","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}