George: If James hadn t blocked my way, I and the Pacers would have won at least one championship

Philadelphia 76ers star Paul George has become one of the most likely players to trade and send away in the 2025 offseason. There is no way. Last year, the team gave him a four-year maximum salary contract of at least $200 million, but he was unable to help Embiid and Maxi lead the 76ers into the playoffs.

76ers were dissatisfied with Paul George's focus on his podcast program in the regular season, and probably warned him privately, which also caused Paul George to suspend his podcast program for a while. But after the team missed the playoffs, he restarted his program again. Recently, Paul George talked about LeBron James in a video clip of "Pivot Podcast", and Paul George said that LeBron James prevented himself from winning the championship with the Pacers.

Paul George said "The other day I was thinking that if there were no LeBron James, I might have one, if we didn't have LeBron James, or if we didn't have LeBron James, we might have one in Indiana. I felt like the Easterners. We played with Carmero and brought Carmero out. We formed a strong Wizards with John Wall and Bradley Bill. No one could beat us, Atlanta is a strong team."

LeBron James has been playing for the Eastern Conference teams since entering the league and until 2018, the Miami Heat and the Cleveland Cavaliers. LeBron James has entered the NBA Finals for eight consecutive seasons from four seasons with the Miami Heat to four seasons returning to the Cleveland Cavaliers, winning three championships. The Indiana Pacers, whom Paul George plays for, are also Eastern Conference teams, and they were both one of LeBron James' strongest competitors. The two met in the playoffs for the first time in the second round of the 2012 playoffs. Paul George was only in his early 20s and faced the three Miami Heat giants. The Pacers also relied on Paul George, Hibert, David West, Granger and Stephenson to drag the Miami Heat into a dilemma. However, the strength of the Heat's Big Three is far beyond the Pacers. As a result, in the 2012 playoffs, they lost to the Miami Heat 2-4 and missed the Eastern Conference Finals. In 2013, the two met in the Eastern Conference Finals, and the competition in this series was very fierce. Neither side was able to achieve the advantage of two consecutive victories, and the number of wins and losses increased alternately. In that round of the series, Paul George averaged 19.4 points, 6.0 rebounds, 5.1 assists, and shot 47.5% from the field. Unfortunately, he was unfortunately defeated in the tiebreak battle. In 2014, LeBron James and Paul George met again in the Eastern Conference Finals, but Paul George led the Pacers to miss the opportunity to enter the Eastern Conference Finals with a score of 2-4. Pacers and Paul George, lost to LeBron James and the Miami Heat for three consecutive years in the playoffs, two of which were eliminated in the Eastern Conference Finals.

LeBron James and Paul George's last playoff match came in 2017, when LeBron James returned to the Cleveland Cavaliers. LeBron James led the Cleveland Cavaliers to sweep the Pacers led by Paul George 4-0, when LeBron James scored a crazy 32.8 points per game.

LeBron James's years of playing for the Heat and the Cavaliers became a roadblock for Eastern Conference teams to enter the finals. However, in those eight seasons, no Eastern Conference team has defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers led by LeBron James and entered the NBA Finals.