One of the beautiful things about sport is that it’s mostly subjective and we as fans get to have our allegiances, standing behind our favourite teams and players at any given opportunity.
The sport of basketball is no different, although with the rise of social media and the pandemic putting an obstacle in the way of face-to-face fan interaction, it can sometimes feel as though opinions are becoming more extreme and blinded by bias as the days pass.
There are few players in professional basketball who conjure up such extremes of fan opinion quite like Paul George, who depending on which fanbase you belong to you’ll likely have a series of different nicknames for — few of which would be kind enough to make it onto Basketball Reference.