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Blake Griffin starts suspension Sunday, will return April 3

Blake Griffin is seen during a Clippers game against the Cleveland Cavaliers on March 13.

Blake Griffin is seen during a Clippers game against the Cleveland Cavaliers on March 13.

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Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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The Clippers announced Sunday that forward Blake Griffin had been medically cleared for all basketball activities and would begin serving his four-game, team-imposed suspension when the Clippers play the Denver Nuggets at Staples Center.

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Griffin will return April 3 against the Washington Wizards at Staples Center. He has missed the last 41 games with a partially torn left quad tendon and right hand fracture.

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Griffin participated in his first practice since December on Saturday and looked “phenomenal,” according to Clippers Coach Doc Rivers.

Griffin was suspended by the team for punching team assistant equipment manager Matias Testi in January at a Toronto restaurant.

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Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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