I am truly sorry. Griffin doesn’t mince words, beginning the piece by writing, “I’ll just get this out of the way”.
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Clippers teammates Austin Rivers, Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan all had active Instagram accounts Thursday night, as they were teasing each other with their posts. It caused him to break his hand and the team suspended him for four games, and in hindsight, it sent the team down a bad path. Griffin broke his right hand and Matias Testi’s face was severely swollen.
PORTLAND, OR – APRIL 25: Blake Griffin #32 of the Los Angeles Clippers sits on the bench as time winds down in the fourth quarter of Game Four of the Western Conference Quarterfinals against the Portland Trail Blazers during the 2016 NBA Playoffs at the Moda Center on April 25, 2016 in Portland, Oregon.
“This is what everybody says, and I didn’t really get it”, Griffin said.
“I just feel changed, in a way”.
Griffin also touched on the overall nature of how the Clippers are viewed in L.A. Matters have improved with the rise of Lob City over the last few years, but it’s still a Lakers town, a Dodgers town, and certainly not a Clippers town. “But at the same time, it makes the stuff that I don’t miss that much more special”. The only place he could find a Clippers logo, he wrote, was at the team’s practice facility.
“We all know the narrative going into this season”, he wrote. “We haven’t achieved our ultimate goal, but I hope we’ve changed the perception of the Clippers”.
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“If I took one positive from last season, it’s that there were a lot of people who were obviously disappointed in me, and who told me so, but who were still in my corner”, he added. The Clippers lost to Portland in six games in the first round of the playoffs. He was not named to the All-Star Game for the first time in his National Basketball Association career.
