On Tuesday night, the Los Angeles Clippers went head-to-head with the Phoenix Suns and lost by one point.
Fans relied on Paul George to carry the team to a win, but he let them down and they bashed him once again on Twitter, giving him the nickname ‘Pandemic P’.
Paul George gets backlash over poor performance
According to BroBible, George’s missed free throws allowed the Suns to run a play for Deandre Ayton a few seconds later to win the game. The match ended off with a score of 103 to the Clippers and 104 to the Suns. Although George was the point leader for his team with an average of 26.6 points, fans believe he could’ve helped them win the game.
paul george went from playoff p to pandemic p within seconds pic.twitter.com/k2as0aGYox
— chicken (@nuggetdoyu) June 23, 2021
Pandemic P really blew the one chance at being the hero pic.twitter.com/1bGwKaG4fK
— #FreeCaruso (@LakeShowRudy) June 23, 2021
Paul George was so close to getting rid of the pandemic p name pic.twitter.com/UDXkpXTEnN
— nigerian corn (@corn_nigerian) June 23, 2021
Why the nickname Pandemic P?
George is renowned by his self-titled Playoff P nickname. However, after going through a pandemic last year when sports opened up again, he received backlash from fans after a poor playoff performance in game two of their series against Dallas Mavericks.
On the night George only scored 14 points on four of 17 shooting chances, which included this awful airball. The nickname then started trending every time George did not play well