IRVINE, Calif. – When Blake Griffin couldn’t run this summer, he got his cardio with swimming and yoga. When he couldn’t go through his normal basketball workouts in early July, he got on the court and put up hundreds of free throws every day.
Months before Monday at media day, where Griffin said he felt “100 percent, without any restrictions,” the star power forward was going through an offseason procedure to repair a strained quad that held him out for half the 2015-16 season.
He took a week after that surgery to rest up. That was the only time Griffin took off during what would be an extensive summer of rehab, which allowed him to get to where he was Tuesday, putting his proclamation that he was fully healed to the test.