Whether or not he ends up playing for the Indiana Pacers this season, Paul George plans to return to the scene of his gruesome right leg injury a year after the fact.
Team USA Basketball, which has qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics thanks to its FIBA World Cup victory last summer, will bring together staff and players in Las Vegas for a four-day mini-camp this August.
George has already been promised a spot on the 2016 Olympic squad, but nonetheless intends to participate in the camp, which will include another exhibition game at the Thomas & Mack Center on UNLV campus, where George broke his leg against a basket stanchion on Aug. 1.
"I’m in," George said, according to NBA.com's John Schuhmann. "Of course."
"The day it happened," he said of the injury, "right after, I told them I looked forward to continuing on with USA basketball."
"All of our players are invited," said USA Basketball director Jerry Colangelo. "By who attends and who might not attend, that in itself is saying something. Really, this is all up to the individual guy. Each player makes his own decision on how he figures into USA Basketball."
Schuhmann reported that the stanchions at Thomas & Mack have been moved further back behind the baseline.
- With h/t to PBT
