LOS ANGELES — You know the two obvious victims.
The dude who got punched and probably winds up losing his job, and the company embarrassed by the infighting and disconsolate over its rare championship window creeping closer to shut.
The perpetrator in this case is Blake Griffin, the Los Angeles Sports Council's recently chosen 2015 Sportsman of the Year. The guy with the glamorous life, spot-on comedic timing and inimitable gifts for the game.
Yet Griffin has hurt himself as much as anyone by breaking his right hand Saturday, sources confirm, when punching Clippers assistant equipment manager Matias Testi.
Griffin is a victim, too, because it is abundantly clear now that even with the glamour, comedy and dunks over cars, he is a young man who has lacked and continues to lack a strong sense of self.
Whatever the root of his insecurities or uncertainties, Griffin has been a paradoxical figure throughout his time with the Clippers. From something as small as his insistence that his hair is brown—not red—to his ongoing epic flaw as a basketball great who tends to ...
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Off-Court Fight Keeps Clippers, NBA Wondering Who Blake Griffin Really Is
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