Tonight, when Paul George dons the red, white, blue for USA Basketball's first exhibition game against Argentina, the two-way star will look the ghosts of his past squarely in the eye. Even if he says his focus is on winning a gold medal, the friendly between the two countries will not be taking place at the Thomas & Mack Center, where George crashed into a basket stanchion and suffered an open tibia-fibula fracture almost two years ago, but the change of venue at T-Mobile Arena likely won't erase his not-so-fond memories: the sight of his own bone, the feeling of someone pouring gasoline on his leg and then lighting a match, and the eerie sound of deafening silence.
It's time for Paul George to make a new memory
