Kevin Durant says George's injury influenced him to leave Team USA

Kevin Durant explained to Michael Lee of the Washington Post his decision to leave Team USA during the training camp last summer.
Durant was also influenced by Paul George’s terrible leg injury.

Per Washington Post, While heading to a gym in Oklahoma City to host his annual basketball camp, Kevin Durant sent a text message to Team USA Coach Mike Krzyzewski to let him know that he needed to talk about something important. Durant had made up his mind that he was drained and could no longer dedicate his summer to training and playing for USA Basketball.
[…] A few days before he reached out to Krzyzewski, Durant watched Indiana Pacers forward Paul George break his right leg in a horrific collision with a basket stanchion during a Team USA basketball scrimmage in Las Vegas that convinced the reigning NBA MVP to withdraw from the FIBA World Cup.
“It took everything out of me seeing that,” Durant later told friend Randy Williams and a Nike executive at his camp of George. “Everything I had to play for Team USA, that injury stripped it away from me.”
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“It felt awkward,” Durant said of the scrimmage that possibly ended George's season. “Once we were playing, it just didn't feel right for some reason.”
After Durant is shown reacting on court to what he called a “freak accident,” the scene shifts to conversation with Durant in which he says, “When you see something like that, so gruesome, in front of you, of course you're going to think, ‘This could happen to me.' ”
Durant was noticeably unsettled as he stood on a wall and spoke to Krzyzewski. He later explained, “I feel like I'm letting somebody down and I hate that feeling.”