VIDEO: Check out Blake Griffin walking to locker room with Matias Testi a few feet behind

This is a video of Blake Griffin walking through the hallway on his way to the Clippers’ locker room Sunday before Griffin and the Clippers took on and defeated the Washington Wizards 114-109 at Staples Center. It was Griffin’s first game back after missing the previous 45 with a partially torn left quad tendon and fractured right hand.
The hand was fractured on the face of team assistant equipment manager Matias Testi on Jan. 23 in Toronto. That’s Testi with the beard, walking behind Griffin:

Doc Rivers liked joint effort with NBA in Blake Griffin saga

Blake Griffin

Blake Griffin/:Photo courtesy of Los Angeles Clippers

 

Doc Rivers on Wednesday in Boston was asked to talk about the way the Clippers and the NBA put their heads together to come up with a penalty for Blake Griffin, which turned out to be four games without pay, and an additional fifth for injuries he sustained when he punched out team equipment staffer Matias Testi on Jan. 23 in Toronto.

The five days of pay is expected to cost Griffin $859,442 of his season salary of $18,907,725. It will be donated to local charities for disadvantaged youth, and Griffin will donate his time as well.

Rivers said he liked the process, which included investigations by both the Clippers and the league.

“I think the NBA had a lot of say so in it, and so did we,” Rivers told the Associated Press. “And that’s the way it should work. I thought it was really well done in that light. They have more people that can investigate things than us because they do it all the time. I just thought as far as that went, I thought it was really well handled by both sides.”