The Clippers and Paul George appear to have dodged the worst-case scenario. The All-Star forward suffered a sprained right knee and he will be re-evaluated in 2-3 weeks.
Paul George injured his right leg late in the game and the Clippers failed to get off a shot in the final possession of a 101-100 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder.
As damaging as the eventual loss was — it left the Clippers’ record at 38-35 for fifth place in the Western Conference and gave Oklahoma City, which is only 1½ games behind, the season-series tiebreaker — the possibility of losing George had cast a pall over the team afterward. The locker room was nearly deserted and the arena hallways nearly silent.
“We got a group of guys that still want to win, that like to play basketball, so we’ll see what happens,” Clippers co-starThe team had been careful to manage George’s workload at times earlier in the season because of previous, unspecified issues with his right knee, but as recently as March 8 he had declared himself much improved.Clippers forward Paul George is attended to after suffering a right knee injury Tuesday against Oklahoma City.
Facing uncertainty Tuesday night while waiting for George to undergo testing, Batum and Leonard pointed to the depth of the roster in case George would need to miss time., who has not played since injuring his left shoulder March 2, is “is coming back pretty soon,” Batum said.
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