{"id":80203,"date":"2025-12-24T15:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/80203\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T15:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:58:10","slug":"76ers-paul-george-shows-defensive-chops-vs-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/80203\/","title":{"rendered":"76ers&#8217; Paul George: Shows defensive chops vs. Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766119390_86_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/PHI\/philadelphia-76ers\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/352.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/players\/1755181\/george\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George<\/a> ended with 19 points (5-14 FG, 2-7 3Pt, 7-8 FT), four rebounds, two assists, two blocks and four steals in 33 minutes during Tuesday&#8217;s 114-106 loss to the Nets.<\/p>\n<p>George finished Tuesday&#8217;s loss as the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/PHI\/philadelphia-76ers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">76ers<\/a>&#8216; second-leading scorer behind Joel Embiid (27 points), but the former made most of his impact on the defensive end of the floor with a season-high six stocks. George missed the first 12 games of the regular season while recovering from offseason knee surgery but has played in 12 of the 76ers&#8217; last 16 games, averaging 16.4 points, 5.0 rebounds, 3.3 assists, 1.6 steals and 2.4 threes over 27.3 minutes per game over that span.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George ended with 19 points (5-14 FG, 2-7 3Pt, 7-8 FT), four rebounds, two assists, two blocks and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,354,9,24,63,16214,9126],"class_list":["post-80203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-fantasy-basketball","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-paul-george","tag-philadelphia-76ers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}