Star power forward Blake Griffin, who is being paid $18.8 million this NBA season by the Los Angeles Clippers, is out for more than a month with a broken hand after punching a Los Angeles Clippers employee on a team road-trip in Toronto. (Yes, that is is as ridiculous as it sounds and you can read all about it here.)
Now, a week after the incident, we have our first look at Griffin's punching hand. It does not look good. At all.
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TMZ obtained a shot of Griffin's busted hand on Wednesday. Check it out.
BLAKE GRIFFIN's HAND — 1st look, post fight... & it's f'ed up. Swollen, scarred... https://t.co/fHcZDJSwFx pic.twitter.com/kNNDQ3SI3e— mike babcock || tmz (@michaeljb1) February 3, 2016
That's a big scar, presumably from surgery to repair the spiral fracture on his fourth metacarpal that broke while punching a team equipment manager. His hand also looks extremely swollen.
The Clippers said last week that Griffin was expected to miss four to six weeks while healing. No medical degrees here, but that hand looks seriously messed up and it would be mildly surprising to see him actually make it back in that time frame. It's also his shooting hand, just to make things worse.
No matter when Griffin's return ends up happening, it can't come soon enough for a Clippers team battling for playoff position in a brutal Western Conference.