Paul George's Olympic dream and his NBA career nearly ended in a horrific accident during a 2014 US team intersquad exhibition when he suffered two open fractures in his right leg. "Really the final step in the chapter of this is coming home with that gold," George said. In an August 1 exhibition by the 2014 US World Cup of Basketball team, George leaped into opposing shooter James Harden and sprawled awkwardly to the floor, landing at the base of the stanchion holding the backboard aloft with compound fractures of his tibia and fibula.
