Lakers season-ticket holder purchases 40 billboards to recruit George

Los Angeles-based attorney and Lakers season-ticket holder Jacob Emrani is at it again and recruiting some of the NBA's biggest stars to play for his favorite team.

Months after putting up four billboards attempting to sway LeBron James toward Hollywood this summer, Emrani has upped the ante by paying for another 40 with six different designs, all aimed at Paul George.

Two can be found near Staples Center, while several more were erected Monday and will remain up through July.

"As Lakers fans, we all thought we had Paul George in the bag, and he was 100 percent going to come and in the past few weeks when I heard people saying he might be considering [staying with the Thunder] and having second thoughts, I felt like nobody was really giving attention to Paul George," Emrani told ESPN's Ohm Youngmisuk. "I feel like it is extremely important for Paul George to see this and see how Lakers Nation is so excited about bringing him home."

"When he went out there last year and said he wanted to play for the Lakers, it was the first ray of hope that we were going back to being a destination where people want to come. Now the time has come."

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All the billboards will prominently display a "PG2LA" hashtag. Of the six designs, three focus on George, while the other three pair George with James.

"We are at the finish line, and as fans I felt like I should represent how fanatic we are and how much we want both of them," Emrani added. "People tell me, 'Hey, can you put up a billboard for this and that?' People are calling my office. I felt like people are counting on me to do this. I want people to know I am doing this for us as fans, for all the people that called and followed us and send me messages all the time."

Free agency will officially get underway on July 1 at midnight ET.