Doc Rivers: 4 to 6 weeks for Griffin’s broken hand to heal ‘unrealistic’

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The prognosis on Blake Griffin’s fractured right hand is that it will cause him to miss four to six more weeks. He had already missed a month with a partially torn left quad tendon, but would have returned on this road trip had he not punched out the team’s assistant equipment manager at a Toronto restaurant on Saturday, injuring the hand in the process.

Doc Rivers isn’t so sure about the four to six weeks part of this.

“I always say four to six weeks with a broken hand is unrealistic, I’ll tell you that,” Rivers said before Tuesday’s victory at Indiana. “That’s my opinion.”

One thing’s certain, Rivers will not even talk about the injured Griffin while he’s out.

“We don’t talk about injuries or guys that aren’t playing, we just don’t,” he said. “That’s a policy of mine. We talk about the guys who are going to play and so we have to figure it out. We are in a tough conference. We have kind of clawed our way up to the spot we’re in right now and now we’ve gotta keep clawing.”

The Clippers are 29-16, 12-3 without Griffin since Christmas. The Clippers are fourth in the Western Conference standings, four games behind third-place Oklahoma City (34-13) and 3 1/2 games ahead of fifth-place Memphis (26-20) ahead of Wednesday’s slate of games.