{"id":82540,"date":"2025-06-07T08:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T08:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/82540\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T08:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T08:10:12","slug":"sixers-paul-george-comes-in-ranked-90th-best-player-in-the-top-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/82540\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers’ Paul George comes in ranked 90th-best player in the top 100"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia 76ers star Paul George had a down year in 2024-25 as he battled through a multitude of injuries. The 9-time All-Star struggled to find his niche in Philadelphia and averaged only 16.2 points while shooting 43% from the floor and his shot attempts at the rim dropped.<\/p>\n

When considering how tough George’s season went combined with the team’s overall struggles, it makes sense to see why he has dropped in the top 100 players list.<\/p>\n

The Ringer put out an updated top 100 players in the NBA list <\/a>and George comes in ranked only No. 90 in the league:<\/p>\n

There were signs last year that George\u2019s game was starting to show the wear and tear of his injury-marred Clippers era\u2014namely, a noticeable lack of aggression in getting to the basket\u2014but that was offset by career-best shooting efficiency. But this season, with Embiid persistently (and often mysteriously) absent and the Sixers forced to rely on a supporting cast of veteran minimums and young fliers, George\u2019s flaws were exposed. To be fair, George was thrust into some difficult circumstances, including having to play backup center for a spell, but Philly needed its max player to perform like it, and the nine-time All-Star simply didn\u2019t deliver. And if that weren\u2019t enough, his unique brand of commentary only made the groans induced by his play more guttural.<\/p>\n

One has to believe that with a healthy George, the Sixers will be able to bounce back in 2025-26. This is still a supremely talented group, again *if* healthy, and should be able to contend again when all of their pieces are on the floor. There is no questioning a trio of George, Tyrese Maxey, and Joel Embiid can win in the East. It all comes down to whether the group will be healthy enough to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia 76ers star Paul George had a down year in 2024-25 as he battled through a multitude of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,2856,6,2612,6221,678,207,3817,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-82540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-76ers","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-george","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-paul","13":"tag-paul-george-basketball-player","14":"tag-philadelphia","15":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","16":"tag-philadelphia76ers","17":"tag-player"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114641071516880461","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82540","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=82540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}