"I've got a lot of pressure and I'm coming into this year ready to live up to that pressure. "Paul George is carried off after injuring his leg during the USA Basketball Showcase at Thomas & Mack Center. "We need to just take a step back before we do anything at all. The Indiana Pacers released a statement on Paul George's head injury:. "Everything is on hold right now, and it should be," Krzyzewski said. "A very emotional setting. To cope with a dearth of options at point guard, Popovich has already promoted Sacramento’s De’Aaron Fox and San Antonio’s Derrick White from a “select” roster of younger players to the senior national team.U.S.A.B. LAS VEGAS -- The Team USA showcase came to a gruesome and unfortunate end Friday night, when Indiana Pacers small forward Paul George suffered what appeared to be a serious right leg injury in the fourth quarter and the game was subsequently called off.As George ran down the floor in pursuit of opposing player James Harden, he slid into the base behind the basket and his leg wrenched in such a way that fans and players alike covered their eyes in horror. "The eyes are on me this year," George said. Such a great young player. Officer Paul George and Officer Scotty McGregor were killed when their helicopter crashed into Carquinez Strait near Crockett, California. This is a tough blow, not only for USA basketball, but for the Indiana Pacers. 8/3/2020 11:30 AM PT Paul Clifton Anthony George Twitter: Yg_Trece (PG-13, Young Trece, Batman, Playoff P) Position: Small Forward and Shooting Guard Shoots: Right 6-8, 220lb (203cm, 99kg) Team: Los Angeles Clippers.
College: Fresno State "No Team USA players were made available afterward. “Sad.”Said Colangelo: “If Paul had gone down for the count, it would have been tragic for him and for us. We are still gathering details and we will have an updated statement Saturday. In seiner Rookie-Saison überzeugte George mit 7,8 Punkten und 3,7 Rebounds pro Spiel und wurde in der Folge ins NBA All-Rookie Second Team berufen. Disaster: Paul George suffered a gruesome leg break during a Team USA inter-squad game in Las Vegas. "The thoughts and prayers of all of us at the NBA are with Paul and his family. Last month, All of that would have been hard to imagine on Aug. 1, 2014, seeing George, with his right leg placed in an air cast and teammates like Plumlee all around him so visibly shaken, taken out of the Thomas & Mack on a stretcher. An official announcement of the injury has yet to be made. And we need to take care of right now appropriately and then move on. Paul George was taken off the court on a stretcher in 2014 after sustaining an open fracture of the tibia and fibula in his right leg during a game with the men’s national team.
8/3/2020 2:55 PM PT "Anything can happen anywhere, a lot of things happen,'' said Krzyzewski, who was coaching Duke against Louisville when the Cardinals' Kevin Ware broke his leg during the 2013 NCAA tournament.
Paul George optimistic about recovery from gruesome leg injury More INDIANAPOLIS – As soon as Paul George crumpled in a heap under the basket during Team USA's scrimmage two … 30. The Pacers issued a statement Saturday about George's injury and prognosis. 8/3/2020 1:37 PM PT I wanted to reach out to the Indiana Pacers organization, I have a call into owner Herb Simon. "We don't really know, exactly (the extent of the injury)," said director of USA Basketball Jerry Colangelo. Asked for his George reflections, Young said it was a frequent occurrence last season for him and Turner to marvel at George’s emergence as a Most Valuable Player Award candidate in Oklahoma City.“Obviously it was a very gruesome injury, but the good thing is he’s bounced back and he’s better than ever,” Young said. 8/3/2020 2:17 PM PT One of the legacies of the George catastrophe was a change in the N.B.A. 8/3/2020 10:26 AM PT operations manual, which requires a minimum distance of six feet between the foot of the basket support and the baseline, increased from the previous standard of four feet.And, yes, Sin City’s 3-year-old sports venue is in compliance.Yet the mere mention of the word “scrimmage,” for a U.S.A.B. The thoughts and prayers of all of us at the NBA are with Paul and his family. teams responsible for lucrative guaranteed contracts have long loathed the idea of their best players participating in international basketball — before and after the George incident — but fears that George’s misfortune would lead the game’s biggest names to completely abandon it have thus far proved unrealized.The strain on the N.B.A.’s top foreign stars is typically far greater than what American players endure on perennially deep U.S. rosters, but Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo (Greece) and Utah’s Rudy Gobert (France) will be headliners at the upcoming World Cup in China — even though both are eligible for “supermax” contract extensions worth more than $250 million in the summer of 2020. At around 3:30 AM, a recording session for the Beatles' upcoming album, Sgt. story line over the past month. 8/3/2020 8:05 AM PT