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Blake Griffin Comments on Punching Incident in Letter to Clippers Fans
- Updated: September 23, 2016
Blake Griffin is ready to return to action following a turbulent 2015-16 season, and he penned a letter to Los Angeles Clippers fans on Friday that included an apology for the events that consumed his rocky campaign.
In a post on The Players’ Tribune, Griffin took responsibility for punching former Clippers equipment staffer Matias Testi outside of a Toronto restaurant in January. The altercation resulted in a fractured hand for Griffin, who was later suspended four games by the Clippers.
“I am truly sorry,” he wrote. “What happened in Toronto was 100 percent my fault. I messed up. There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think about it. And I don’t mean that in some cliched ‘not a day goes by’ way. I genuinely think about it every single day, and I just feel like I let down the fans who have been riding with us since the beginning.”
Griffin, who was also plagued by a quad injury last season, appeared in just 35 regular-season games before the Portland Trail Blazers bounced the Clippers from the playoffs in the first round.
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