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Under the circumstances, it was understandable that coach Doc Rivers was asked before Tuesday’s 91-89 victory at Indiana if the fight over the weekend in Toronto involving Blake Griffin and the team’s assistant equipment manager – Matias Testi – involved alcohol.

Rivers said it did not, at least not as far as he knew.

“I don’t know,” he said. “They’re grown men. “They’re at the legal age that they can have a drink. But I don’t think, honestly, alcohol had anything to do with it.”

Griffin sustained a fracture in his right hand in the row. He is expected to be out four to six more weeks. He has already been out a month with a partially torn left quad tendon, from which he was on the brink of returning before this happened.