"Honestly, right after it happened, I was on the side of just getting surgery," George said. George, who played 30 minutes, said that when the team announced on Christmas Day he would be out indefinitely due to the torn UCL, he considered having surgery to get ready for next season. Now the Clippers, who occupy the eighth spot in the Western Conference standings, are feeling a boost of confidence with their star guard back. Utah had been an NBA-best 235-0 since 1996-97 when leading by 25 or more in the regular season, according to ESPN Stats & Information research.įor the Jazz, this was a bitter reminder of what happened last summer when the Clippers came back from 25 down at home to eliminate Utah in Game 6 in the second round of the playoffs. Three of their come-from-behind wins this season were from 25 or more down, the most in the past 25 seasons. They previously set the record with three coming in January alone. Ty Lue's team has the most 24-plus-point comeback wins in one season with four. He returned to stop the Clippers' five-game losing streak while also leading yet another improbable comeback for LA. George now has more 30-point games this season (7) than the rest of the Clippers team combined (6).Īnd George's timing could not have been any better.
George's 34 points were the most ever by a player who had missed his team's previous 40-plus games within one season, according to Elias Sports Bureau research. "It's more so just that muscle and my forearm getting stronger." It's no pain there's nothing of that sort.
The ligament will get stronger with the stress put on it. "It's in the 90 percentile," George said of how strong his elbow is after letting it heal for much of the past three months. It was exactly what the Clippers had been missing since George last played on Dec. George hit 5 of 7 shots, including 3 of 4 3-pointers, in the third quarter, when he erupted for 20 of his points to help the Clippers erase a 25-point deficit with 8:07 remaining in the frame. He had 34 points, six assists and four steals in his return to the court to lift the Clippers to a stirring, come-from-behind 121-115 win over the Utah Jazz at Arena on Tuesday night. George's elbow is feeling good again - and it showed. LOS ANGELES - Three months after he seriously considered undergoing surgery to repair the torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow, Paul George soared for an alley-oop pass that was sailing out of bounds, extended his right arm as far as it could go to catch the ball and then hit Isaiah Hartenstein with a pass for a layup - all in one motion. LA Clippers' Paul George scores 34 in return from 3-month absence to fuel comeback vs.
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