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Blake Griffin says his back is not fractured

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports / reuters

It was revealed last week that Los Angeles Clippers superstar Blake Griffin withdrew from Team USA's training camp due to injury concerns involving a small fracture in his back.

On Tuesday, Griffin revealed to Broderick Turner of the Los Angeles Times that his back is fine - he just shouldn't be playing and practicing so soon.

It's less than a hairline and my back is not fractured. Everything is still intact, I can still come out here and I can do my workouts and I can do everything I used to do. I just shouldn't be playing and practicing every day this early.

My whole thing is that I didn't want to go into [Clippers training] camp and put myself in a worse position. It's not that my back is broken and I'm walking around with a broken back, or I'm in so much pain.

But if I start playing basically two months earlier than everybody else and then go through all of next season and the playoffs, then I'm probably going to put myself in a bad position. I couldn't do that.

Roderick reveals that Griffin is in Los Angeles undergoing exercises to strengthen his back. A picture of his regime can be seen below:

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