{"id":112603,"date":"2024-12-16T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=112603"},"modified":"2024-12-16T22:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T03:25:00","slug":"sixers-paul-george-top-10-all-time-3s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/12\/16\/sixers-paul-george-top-10-all-time-3s\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers All-Star Paul George Now Top-10 All-Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia 76ers season is going poorly. In fact, the Sixers are currently projected to have a top-10 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/georgpa01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul George<\/a> just had his best game in a Sixers uniform.<\/p>\n<h2>Sixers All-Star Paul George Now Top-10 All-Time In Made 3s<\/h2>\n<p>In 40 minutes, George tallied 33 points, eight assists, five rebounds, two steals, and one block against the Charlotte Hornets. The nine-time All-Star was also incredibly efficient, going 13-20 from the field and 6-9 from distance to help lead a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/e\/embiijo01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joel Embiid<\/a>-less Philadelphia squad to a victory. In the process, he moved into the top-10 in career threes made, passing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/t\/terryja01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jason Terry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, like Terry, George was selected 10th overall in the NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Paul George&#8217;s 2,283rd three-pointer to move him into top 10 ALL-TIME! \ud83d\udc4f <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QsuFRfsGJC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/QsuFRfsGJC<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oh1hj4Rzxd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/oh1hj4Rzxd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1868834144094236868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>George now has 2,285 career three-pointers. With that being said, Hall of Fame forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cartevi01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vince Carter<\/a> is just ahead of him with 2,290 career threes. As a result, George could move even further up the all-time rankings by the end of the week. The Sixers face the Hornets again on Dec. 20 and then play the Cleveland Cavaliers on Dec. 21.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">PG went from being told not to shoot 3s to being one of the NBA&#8217;s leaders. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hz0dZeMja6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/Hz0dZeMja6<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SNCL8dIrng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/SNCL8dIrng<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Podcast P with Paul George (@PodcastPShow) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PodcastPShow\/status\/1868825516452856163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s almost strange to think that there was a time that the Fresno State product was told not to shoot three-pointers, as he revealed on <em>Podcast P With Paul George<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3>Rounding The Corner<\/h3>\n<p>Myriad factors have contributed to the Sixers\u2019 sluggish start, the most glaring of which is their poor injury luck. Entering the 2024-25 season, Philadelphia\u2019s health concerns were already a talking point. So much so that neither Embiid nor George expected <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/10\/14\/sixers-joel-embiid-stunning-admission-tu-paul-george\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">to be fully cleared<\/a> for many, if any, back-to-backs. However, they couldn\u2019t have expected this.<\/p>\n<p>Embiid has played just six games this season. This was primarily due mainly due to his nagging knee injury but now the former MVP has sustained <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/12\/14\/embiid-injury-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">a sinus fracture<\/a>. George has played just 14 games this season after hyperextending his knee on two separate occasions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/maxeyty01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyrese Maxey<\/a>, who should be no worse than the third option most nights, missed nearly a fortnight with a hamstring injury. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mccaija01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jared McCain<\/a>, who broke out as the Rookie of the Year favorite, has been ruled out indefinitely with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/12\/14\/76ers-jared-mccain-rookie\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">a torn meniscus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In going 4-2 over their last six games though, there\u2019s reason to be optimistic. Maxey and George\u2019s performance against the Hornets must be taken with a grain of salt as Charlotte isn\u2019t currently a playoff-contender. Nonetheless, they and the rest of their team look like they\u2019re rounding a corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia 76ers season is going poorly. In fact, the Sixers are currently projected to have a top-10 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. However, Paul George just had his best game in a Sixers uniform. Sixers All-Star Paul George Now Top-10 All-Time In Made 3s In 40 minutes, George tallied 33 points, eight assists, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":112611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1608,62,3],"tags":[49067,1174,267,4745,50,2478,933],"class_list":["post-112603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-76ers","category-basketball","category-nba","category-news","tag-jared-mccain","tag-jason-terry","tag-joel-embiid","tag-nba-injuries","tag-paul-george","tag-tyrese-maxey","tag-vince-carter"],"modified_by":"Quenton S Albertie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112612,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112603\/revisions\/112612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}