At least one member of the Los Angeles Clippers is hoping DeAndre Jordan doesn’t get trade this season or leave in free agency: Blake Griffin. As the All-Star forward told The Undefeated’s Marc J. Spears: How are you taking teammate DeAndre Jordan’s pending free-agency situation? This is his second time being in this situation. Before [...]
January 11, 2018
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More bad news for Blake Griffin and the struggling and short-handed Los Angeles Clippers: Griffin will miss the next two months while he recovers from a sprained MCL. [tweet https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/935601533021913088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Griffin suffered the injury in the 4th quarter of the Clippers 120-115 win over the Lakers on Monday night when a tumbling Austin Rivers landed [...]
November 28, 2017
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Things between Blake Griffin and Chris Paul were absolutely as awkward and combustible as you think they were. Paul is now a member of the Houston Rockets, so this doesn’t matter anymore. But the two spent more than a half-decade together on the Los Angeles Clippers, ostensibly jostling for alpha status. And while the tense [...]
November 9, 2017
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LeBron James does not care for Blake Griffin’s prediction that he’s more likely to leave Cleveland for New York than Los Angeles. While making an appearance on the”View From the Cheap Seats“ podcast, the Los Angeles Clippers’ All-Star forward said the following (h/t TMZ): “Honestly, I don’t see him coming to L.A. period,” Griffin said … [...]
August 22, 2017
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Blake Griffin is wholly against the NBA doing away with year-end awards. That, or he’s against Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey being against them. We’ll let you decide. In an interview with SI.com’s Ben Golliver, Morey lamented the inconsistent way in which the league’s awards—specifically it’s MVP honor—are judged. He went as far as [...]
August 1, 2017
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Blake Griffin is confident the Los Angeles Clippers didn’t just hand him a five-year, $173 million contract to begin next season on the bench. So, yay(?) Griffin’s 2016-17 campaign ended less than three games into the Clippers’ first-round playoff matchup with the Utah Jazz due to a right big toe injury. While the timetable for [...]
July 20, 2017
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The Los Angeles Clippers are not planning a teardown after trading Chris Paul to the Houston Rockets—at least not one that doesn’t include Blake Griffin. With free agency right around the corner, the Clippers have an early meeting set with their All-Star forward’s agent, and their top priority remains keeping him, according to the Southern [...]
June 30, 2017
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The Oklahoma City Thunder’s proximity to the luxury tax won’t stop them from trying to make moves in free agency. First up, according to The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski, is Rudy Gay: [tweet https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/880419815428681728] Gay and the Thunder have been linked before, prior to his Achilles injury. His development as a spot-up shooter makes him an [...]
June 29, 2017
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Superstar free agents with foresight would be wise to consider signing with the Denver Nuggets. They were basically a playoff team last season and are one transcendent player away from making a small ruckus in the Western Conference. But they’re also young and flexible enough to be juggernauts three, four, five years down the line. [...]
June 26, 2017
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While the rumor mill has been churning for sometime now about Gordon Hayward reuniting with his college coach Brad Stevens and bolting Utah to become the newest member of the Boston Celtics, one other free agent target of the Celtics has taken a back seat: Blake Griffin. Intrepid reporter from The Vertical Adrian Wojnarowski reported [...]
June 14, 2017
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