Paul George carried off court with left leg injury

— -- Indiana Pacers forward Paul George was carried off the court by teammates midway through the fourth quarter of Wednesday night's loss to the Memphis Grizzlies.

The Pacers said he had a sore left calf and classified his status as questionable.

George was attended to on the bench before being carried back to the locker room.

The 95-83 loss eliminated the Pacers from the playoff race.

George returned April 5 after missing a little more than eight months with a broken right leg. He snapped the leg in a gruesome scene when he ran into a basketball stanchion during a Team USA scrimmage in August in Las Vegas.

The conventional wisdom then was that George would miss the season and return for the start of 2015-16. Instead, the Pacers found themselves delicately trying to balance playing it safe with their top player and pushing George to come back as soon as he was ready to go.

He returned to full practices in late February, then started lobbying behind the scenes to get back on the court in early April.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.