Trade & FA 2024-25:

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Joey Linn (@joeylinn_)
Paul George says losing Robert Covington and Nicolas Batum really hurt the Clippers:

“We started the year off hot. Everybody was playing well, there was the energy there. It was kinda like the first time of us all being healthy with Russ now. It was the emergence of what it’s like being with Russ now with myself healthy, Kawhi healthy, and Russ full-time here. It was kind of like a fresh start… Then we traded to get James, and it’s not James’ fault of why we struggled, but the lost part of that was we lost RoCo, we lost Nico… Now you grab James, who is super talented offensively, now myself, Kawhi, we become the dirty guys…”

See, this, to me, makes it seem like he DOESN'T want to go back to the Clippers. Combined with the earlier nugget you posted, what I'm hearing is "I want to go someplace where I can touch the ball."