Blake Griffin returns to face Clippers in likely emotional game

Whether Blake Griffin’s first date with the Clippers at Staples Center is awkward, stirring, wistful, deferential or all of the above, and probably more, it’ll feel momentous.
“A lot’s being made about him coming back, and anyone would not be telling the truth if that didn’t pull some emotional string that you have, coming back to the place where you helped build and you put together,” Detroit Pistons Coach Dwane Casey said before his team lost to the Lakers a