It must be September. Paul George will be playing alongside three new starters in a new system under a new coach, but he opened training camp with the same individual goal he’s openly pined for prior to the start of each of his last two full seasons.
“I definitely want to be MVP this year,” George said on SiriusXM NBA Radio. “It’s tough, as always; but, with Coach Nate (McMillan) and the guys that we have here, I’m in position to move into that spot.”
George, whose defense and malleability arguably made him the MVP of Team USA off the bench, has the eighth-best odds (22-1) of winning the NBA’s most prestigious regular season award, according to oddsmakers at Bovada.