Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Oooooof Award: Blake Griffin

Oh man, you can't make this stuff up.

Blake Griffin, already sidelined with a hamstring injury, has reportedly broken his hand after punching a team equipment manager multiple times. Yes, an equipment manager.

I'd love to know what that argument was all about, and the possibilities are hilarious. Hard to say if we will ever know, but of all the ways to injure yourself I'd have to say this is one of the most bizarre I've ever heard. Regardless, with the Clippers sitting 4th in the Western Conference and heading into the home stretch of the season, they definitely need Griffin as they get tuned up for the playoffs, and instead he's going to be out a while longer because for some reason, the equipment manager pissed him off. I believe that qualifies for an ....

Ooooooof.

Appendum: I learned at Hoop Talks the night after writing this blog entry that this incident took place at Sotto Sotto Ristorante right here in Toronto. Yowzers!