LOS ANGELES — Pink is the color of the large residual discoloration on the back of Blake Griffin's right hand.
It's a scarring reminder of how misdirected his sixth NBA season has been when everyone expected Griffin's, and his team's, greatest focus ever.
The time has passed for deepening characterizations of Griffin as soft or fake-tough because he broke that hand in a restaurant punching a guy too short to even look him in the neck.
The assistant equipment manager with the busted face—he also needed to be medically cleared to return—made it back to work a month-and-a-half ago.
Griffin finally made it back Sunday.
Whether the surgery on and controversy over his hand complicated what wound up being an erroneous rather than therapeutic strategy to heal his torn left quadriceps, Griffin's leg still isn't quite right and might need offseason surgery.
He has no good options at this point, and this is an appropriate between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place situation for Griffin's season to wind up in.
He can only do the best with what he has now.
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