July 5th, 2019. It was a quiet night without much NBA news. It’s 1 AM on the east coast and midnight in Oklahoma City. A notification comes out of nowhere that not many saw coming. Paul George has been traded to the Los Angeles Clippers, tweets Adrian Wojnarowski. Social media goes into a frenzy, even crashing the app at one point. Who saw this coming?
At first glance, all we saw was George traded to the Clippers for a record-setting draft collection. But we knew there had to be players with salary figures involved.