Clippers coach Tyronn Lue reveals big news on Paul George’s injury
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In this NBA season, all the teams are dealing with something or the other problems of players’ injuries or Covid healthy & safety protocols. But LA Clippers are suffering more than any other franchise in the league. Recent news of Paul George in which the LA Clippers announced that the All-star is suffering from UCL tear in the elbow, has shocked the Clippers fans.
Clippers were already dealing with injuries in this season where Kawhi Leonard with ACL tear has not played a single game in the season, Reggie Jackson is suffering from a quad injury and Marcus Morris Sr. is still in Covid healthy and safety protocol, and now this news of Paul George suffering from UCL tear have frustrated LA Clippers head coach Tyronn Lue
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Here’s what Clippers head Coach Tryonn Lue said
“It’s frustrating,” said Tyron Lue after the absence of LA Clippers Star players in the season. He further added, “I mean, you can’t get a rhythm of how we want to play with all of our guys here, but everyone’s dealing with the same thing so I’m pretty sure, I talked to four or five coaches around the league that’s frustrated with the same thing, so just having a chance to have our whole team for five, 10 games, just to see how it looks going forward. But like I said, it is what it is, talking about the last two years just being able to adapt and we’ve done that but it is frustrating.“
Paul George’s injury was reported after the Clippers match against Portland Blazers on 6th December, after which he didn’t appear for 5 games in a row, he came back on 20th December with a match against San Antonio Spurs.
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Paul George on his elbow injury
Post-game Paul George came in front of the media and spoke about his condition he said,” Felt fine, but wanted to see how he felt the following morning after taking some hits.” But when Paul George played against Sacramento Kings, he experienced some pain in his elbow, later it was confirmed after MRI that the injury is severe.
During a recent report from Adrian Wojnarowski on ESPN, he said, “The team will re-evaluate [George] in 3-4 weeks, they’ll see if rest can get him on a pathway to recovery, but he’s gonna be out certainly a significant period of time, and there’s no real sense of when, or if, he’ll be back this year.”
LA Clippers is currently playing with a record of 17-16 in this season so far. They have a huge challenge in front of them to stay alive in the season and qualify for playoffs with remaining healthy team and without their star players.
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