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Griffin apologizes to Clippers fans again for altercation
- Updated: September 23, 2016
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Blake Griffin is apologizing to Los Angeles Clippers fans for punching the team’s assistant equipment manager last season, an incident he says was “100 percent my fault.”
He was suspended four games and docked nearly $860,000 in pay for the altercation in January at a Toronto restaurant. Griffin broke his right hand and Matias Testi’s face was severely swollen. Testi no longer works for team, having left in late July with no reason given by the Clippers, who open training camp Tuesday in Irvine.
Griffin says not a day goes by that he doesn’t think about the incident and says he feels like he let down longtime Clippers fans. The 27-year-old forward expressed his thoughts in a letter posted Friday on The Players’ Tribune website, where he is listed as a senior editor.
“I don’t want to dwell on it, but I think I …