{"id":5176,"date":"2016-01-28T11:09:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T15:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/?p=5176"},"modified":"2016-01-28T11:17:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T15:17:32","slug":"clippers-all-star-blake-griffin-breaks-hand-throwing-a-punch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/clippers-all-star-blake-griffin-breaks-hand-throwing-a-punch\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers&#8217; All-Star Blake Griffin Breaks Hand Throwing a Punch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Clippers&#8217; five-time All-Star Blake Griffin broke his right hand Saturday night during a physical altercation in Toronto, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>According to the team, Griffin suffered the injury &#8220;throwing a punch&#8221; at Matias Testi, the team&#8217;s assistant equipment manger at a restaurant. The injury was determined to be a spiral fourth\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/patient-education\/metacarpal-fractures\/\" target=\"_blank\">metacarpal fracture<\/a>\u00a0that will likely keep Griffin off the court for four to six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Clippers Coach Doc Divers&#8217;s was clearly unhappy about the injury, and was sceptical about the four to six weeks recovery timeline, stating &#8220;I always say four to six weeks with a broken hand is unrealistic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A full investigation has been initiated by the Clippers into the altercation. Griffin had been having a strong season on the court, averaging 23.2 points a game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Clippers&#8217; five-time All-Star Blake Griffin broke his right hand Saturday night during a physical altercation in Toronto, Ontario. According to the team, Griffin suffered the injury &#8220;throwing a punch&#8221; at Matias Testi, the team&#8217;s assistant equipment manger at a restaurant. The injury was determined to be a spiral fourth\u00a0metacarpal fracture\u00a0that will likely keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}