Official Site of the Pacers · Jun 27, 2016
With Olympic Spot, Paul George Comes Full Circle
We can call this coming full circle. It's a jagged circle, with no small amount of misery, doubt and frustration along the way, but a circle just the same.
Paul George's selection to the United States Olympic basketball team completes a circuitous path that began on Aug. 1, 2014, a dramatic evening that began as tragedy but turned out to be a prelude to triumph. He suffered a compound fracture of his lower right leg that evening after crashing into a basket support – a support placed too close to the basket – while attempting to block a breakaway scoring attempt by James Harden in a USA Basketball intrasquad scrimmage in Las Vegas.