RIO DE JANEIRO – Paul George has been on the other end of this sort of hospital bed conversation, the kind that lifts your spirits after so many days of devastation.
For the Indiana Pacers star who suffered a gruesome right leg break in a Team USA men’s basketball scrimmage in Las Vegas on Aug. 1, 2014, it was an inspiring phone call he received from the Lakers legend Kobe Bryant that made him want to fight again. And now, with French gymnast Samir Ait Said, having suffered a similar fate with his left leg break on Saturday during qualification rounds, George wants to play that part.