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USA Basketball: Court Setup Not To Blame For George's Injury

USA Basketball officials said that the court at Thomas & Mack Center during an exhibition Friday "was safe and the space from the basket stanchion to the baseline was adequate," and that the injury to Pacers F Paul George was "a matter of bad luck." A USA Basketball spokesperson said, "We’ve been playing on this court since 2006 without incident. We’ve never had a serious injury before Friday" (LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL, 8/2). 

Pacers President of Basketball Operations Larry Bird in a statement said, "We still support USA Basketball and believe in the NBA's goals of exposing our game, our teams and players worldwide. This is an extremely unfortunate injury that occurred on a highly-visible stage, but could also have occurred anytime, anywhere" (Pacers).

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