#8PF · Philadelphia Sixers
Height
6'8"
Weight
220 lbs
Age
36
College
Fresno State
Experience
15 yrs
Wingspan
6'11.3"
Reach
8'11.0"
Hand Size
8.5" × 9"
Grade this player:
| Year | Team | GP | PPG | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | FG% | 3PT% | FT% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career |  | 945 | 17.3 | 5.3 | 3.6 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 43.9% | 38.4% | 85.2% |
| 2025-26 | | 37 | 17.3 | 5.3 | 3.6 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 43.9% | 39.2% | 82.0% |
| 2024-25 | | 41 | 16.2 | 5.3 | 4.3 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 43.0% | 35.8% | 81.4% |
| 2023-24 |  | 74 | 22.6 | 5.2 | 3.5 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 47.1% | 41.3% | 90.7% |
| 2022-23 | | 56 | 23.8 | 6.1 | 5.1 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 45.7% | 37.1% | 87.1% |
| 2021-22 | | 31 | 24.3 | 6.9 | 5.7 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 42.1% | 35.4% | 85.8% |
| 2020-21 | | 54 | 23.3 | 6.6 | 5.2 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 46.7% | 41.1% | 86.8% |
| 2019-20 | | 48 | 21.5 | 5.7 | 3.9 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 43.9% | 41.2% | 87.6% |
| 2018-19 |  | 77 | 28.0 | 8.2 | 4.1 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 43.8% | 38.6% | 83.9% |
| 2017-18 | | 79 | 21.9 | 5.7 | 3.3 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 43.0% | 40.1% | 82.2% |
| 2016-17 |  | 75 | 23.7 | 6.6 | 3.3 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 46.1% | 39.3% | 89.8% |
| 2015-16 | | 81 | 23.1 | 7.0 | 4.1 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 41.8% | 37.1% | 86.0% |
| 2014-15 | | 6 | 8.8 | 3.7 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 36.7% | 40.9% | 72.7% |
| 2013-14 | | 80 | 21.7 | 6.8 | 3.5 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 42.4% | 36.4% | 86.4% |
| 2012-13 | | 79 | 17.4 | 7.6 | 4.1 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 41.9% | 36.2% | 80.7% |
| 2011-12 | | 66 | 12.1 | 5.6 | 2.4 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 44.0% | 38.5% | 80.2% |
| 2010-11 | | 61 | 7.8 | 3.7 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 45.3% | 29.7% | 76.2% |
| Date | OPP | Result | MIN | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | FG | 3PT | +/- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed, 5/6 | @ NYK | L 102-108 | 43 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 7-18 | 5-13 | -4 |
| Tue, 5/5 | @ NYK | L 98-137 | 26 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6-11 | 4-6 | -26 |
| Sat, 5/2 | @ BOS | W 109-100 | 42 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5-10 | 3-5 | +9 |
| Fri, 5/1 | vs BOS | W 106-93 | 40 | 23 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8-17 | 5-9 | +11 |
| Tue, 4/28 | @ BOS | W 113-97 | 43 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 6-13 | 4-9 | +19 |
| Sun, 4/26 | vs BOS | L 96-128 | 31 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6-13 | 3-3 | -13 |
| Fri, 4/24 | vs BOS | L 100-108 | 41 | 18 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 7-14 | 4-7 | -4 |
| Tue, 4/21 | @ BOS | W 111-97 | 35 | 19 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7-13 | 2-5 | 0 |
| Sun, 4/19 | @ BOS | L 91-123 | 28 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4-8 | 1-2 | -10 |
| Wed, 4/15 | vs ORL | W 109-97 | 36 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 6-16 | 1-6 | +16 |
Length
3 years
Total Value
$162.4M
Guaranteed
$105.8M
AAV
$51.7M/yr
Paul George's contract with the Philadelphia Sixers is graded as a F CVI. At $51.7M per year, the team is currently paying more than the on-court production warrants — a gap that needs to close for this deal to work out. Paul's production is solid — comfortably above the league-average power forward threshold. As a max contract, Paul's salary is capped by the CBA — meaning the CVI reflects whether production justifies the highest possible investment a team can make in a single player. The concern here is the gap between production and cost — the team is paying a premium above the player's on-court value. At 36, the aging curve is the biggest risk factor on this contract — the window for peak production is closing. The 3-year contract represents a moderate investment with room to exit if needed.
Paul George earns a B Performance grade this season — a quality starter-level power forward putting up solid numbers for the Philadelphia Sixers. This season, Paul is putting up 17.3 points, 5.3 rebounds, and 3.6 assists per game across 945 games. Paul's strongest area is PPG at 17.3, which compares favorably to the power forward median of 15.0. The biggest area for growth is APG at 3.6 (power forward median: 4.0). Among 84 NBA power forwards graded this season, Paul ranks 11th. Paul is a reliable contributor who the Philadelphia Sixers can count on game to game.
Paul George's public standing has climbed to an A sentiment grade heading into the playoff stretch, a remarkable turnaround for a 16-year veteran whose reputation took a real hit earlier this season. The driving force behind this revival is a redemptive arc that the media has latched onto hard — George's public apology to his Sixers teammates following a suspension cast him briefly as a liability, but his return to the lineup produced back-to-back wins, and that winning context has done more to rehabilitate his image than any press conference ever could. His on-court production backs up the goodwill to a degree: in the 2025-26 season across 37 games, George is posting 17.3 PPG, 5.3 RPG, and 3.6 APG — a solid-starter output that earns him a B performance grade, not quite the All-NBA two-way force of his 2019 peak but a meaningful, functional contributor for a playoff roster. Analysts and fans are cautiously buying back in, though the conditional nature of the optimism is hard to miss — George carries a 15-year résumé that includes genuine All-NBA 1st Team caliber play alongside a well-documented pattern of availability concerns, and nobody has forgotten that the floor here can drop fast. With the Sixers sitting at 45-37 as the No. 7 seed in the East and the NBA Finals window just under 50 days away, the narrative urgency has never been higher — playoff performance will either cement this redemption story or reopen every skeptical take from earlier in the year. Right now, the sentiment is trending in the right direction, but it remains a confidence built on recent sample size rather than sustained proof, which means George's next few games carry outsized weight in how the broader basketball world ultimately files this chapter.
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