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re: Does the Paul George injury change how TeamUSA is chosen?
Posted on 8/1/14 at 10:24 pm to tigerbait3488
Posted on 8/1/14 at 10:24 pm to tigerbait3488
I doubt any of that happens.
As sickening as that injury was to watch, the same kind of injury could happen in an exhibition game in China or Drew League. Paul George was making a simple basketball play.
The same issue happens in soccer all the time, when players go on national team duty. Every club in the world hates to release its players to national team. Ultimately the decision to release a player to his national team is out of the clubs' control, unless the player has a nagging injury.
Every club in both basketball and soccer has an insurance policy from FIFA and FIBA in case of an injury while on national team duty.
This isn't unprecedented in basketball either. Manu Ginobili seriously injured himself while playing for Argentina at the 2008 Olympics.
As sickening as that injury was to watch, the same kind of injury could happen in an exhibition game in China or Drew League. Paul George was making a simple basketball play.
The same issue happens in soccer all the time, when players go on national team duty. Every club in the world hates to release its players to national team. Ultimately the decision to release a player to his national team is out of the clubs' control, unless the player has a nagging injury.
Every club in both basketball and soccer has an insurance policy from FIFA and FIBA in case of an injury while on national team duty.
This isn't unprecedented in basketball either. Manu Ginobili seriously injured himself while playing for Argentina at the 2008 Olympics.
This post was edited on 8/1/14 at 10:26 pm
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Posted on 8/1/14 at 10:25 pm to thenry712
The padding of the basket looked a lot closer to the court than usual.
Basketball in general needs to get people/shite away from the court. I've been bitching about that for years.
Basketball in general needs to get people/shite away from the court. I've been bitching about that for years.
Posted on 8/1/14 at 10:27 pm to thenry712
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As sickening as that injury was to watch, the same kind of injury could happen in an exhibition game in China or Drew League. Paul George was making a simple basketball play.
This. They are athlete's. The risk is there every time they step on the court and that doesn't stop any of them in playing in Pro-am's all over the country in the offseason.
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This isn't unprecedented in basketball either. Manu Ginobili seriously injured himself while playing for Argentina at the 2008 Olympics.
Pau broke his foot one year playing for Spain and missed a large chunk of a Grizzlies season one year.
shite happens. It's sports.
Posted on 8/1/14 at 10:56 pm to thenry712
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This isn't unprecedented in basketball either. Manu Ginobili seriously injured himself while playing for Argentina at the 2008 Olympics.
Don't remind me. That seriously affected the Spurs' title prospects that year, as well.
Part of the reason SA denied Ginobili the opportunity to play in this offseasons games with the Argentine national team.
Like another poster intimated, it's always an injury risk when a player chooses to play international ball.
Posted on 8/2/14 at 11:17 pm to thenry712
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This isn't unprecedented in basketball either. Manu Ginobili seriously injured himself while playing for Argentina at the 2008 Olympics.
Manu seriously injures himself getting out of bed every morning. The guy routine misses lots of games every season.
George's injury was a freak accident. If future NBA players don't play for Team USA bc of this, they're un-American.
You think MJ, Magic, Bird, LeBron or Kobe would've declined playing for Team USA?
Posted on 8/4/14 at 3:30 am to thenry712
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the same kind of injury could happen in an exhibition game in China or Drew League. Paul George was making a simple basketball play.
This.
These guys will be playing basketball in the offseason if they're on team USA or not. Kobe was in China yesterday taking on fans 1 on 1. I'd much rather my star doing organized team USA shite than the stuff they'd be doing if they weren't on team USA.
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