OKLAHOMA CITY -- Late Monday afternoon, under a sprawling pastel blue Oklahoma sky, Paul George stood on a fishing dock at South Lakes Park in southwest Oklahoma City.
He was there to cut the ribbon on a kid-friendly dock, designed to look like a basketball floor with his PG logo on it that he and the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation came together to build.
The dock was something he planned while playing with the Thunder, before any notion of teaming with Kawhi Leonard in Los Angeles was a possibility. It's one of the reasons why when his name was called in the starting lineups on Tuesday night in OKC as a member of the LA Clippers, he was given a strong ovation.