Paul George has said he'd be playing for the Los Angeles Lakers had the Oklahoma City Thunder not acquired him in a trade during the summer of 2017. George will get another chance to show the organization what they're missing when the Thunder take on the Lakers for the first time this season at Staples Center on Wednesday. George, who grew up about 60 miles north of Los Angeles, told ESPN in October that he would have signed with the Lakers last summer had the Indiana Pacers not traded him to Oklahoma City.