Blake Griffin Out 4–6 Weeks After Fracturing Hand Punching Team Equipment Manager

Blake Griffin has been injured before playing basketball. This wasn’t a basketball-related injury though.

Blake Griffin has been out since Christmas though the Los Angeles Clippers have gone a stellar 11–3 without their five-time All-Star forward. Doug Pensinger/Getty Images

ESPN is reporting that Clippers leading scorer Blake Griffin—who’s been out since Christmas Day with a partially torn left quadriceps tendon—has injured his hand after punching team equipment manager Matias Testi on Jan. 23 at a restaurant during the team’s road trip in Toronto.

According to the report, Griffin punched Testi during an argument in a restaurant. Testi then went outside following the argument and the 6-foot-10-inch Griffin followed him and hit him again.

The punches left Griffin—who, along with teammate DeAndre Jordan, is friends with Testi and has even vacationed with him—with a fracture in his hand and will likely shelve him for 4–6 weeks according to a joinst statement from owner Steve Ballmer and Doc Rivers—the team’s head coach.

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