Blake Griffin will be a free agent this summer if he, as expected, terminates the final year of his contract. He was born in Oklahoma City. He attended the University of Oklahoma. His Los Angeles Clippers are playing the Oklahoma City Thunder on Friday. You know where this is going. Asked about his connection to [...]
November 10, 2016
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Blake Griffin is going to become a free agent next summer. Why wouldn’t he, after all? He can terminate the final year of his deal, which is worth nearly $21.4 million, and hit the open market, amid another salary-cap boom, at the age of 28. It makes too much financial sense for him to test [...]
October 13, 2016
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You don’t see this every day. Last night the Raptors were in LA to play against the Clippers in a preseason game. Midway through the second quarter, Jamal Crawford lost his shoe. Griffin, trying to help out his teammate, picked it up to give it to him. At that same moment Crawford passed Griffin the [...]
October 6, 2016
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Blake Griffin is ready to take his game beyond the three-point line. Shooting threes isn’t an especially new concept for the Los Angeles Clippers superstar. In recent years, it has become a slightly bigger part of his game. He has jacked up 87 triples over the last three seasons after tossing up 68 through his [...]
September 30, 2016
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Blake Griffin’s future with the Los Angeles Clippers may not be up in the air after all. Many expect the All-Star forward to, at the very least, explore all possibilities once he, presumably, exercises his early termination option next summer and becomes a free agent. But, according to Steve Kyler of Basketball Insiders, that’s not [...]
August 25, 2016
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After renegotiating his current contract, Russell Westbrook will be with the Oklahoma City Thunder through at least the 2017-18 season. The extension itself, while encouraging, has given the Thunder two seasons, before his player option ahead of 2018-19, to sell Westbrook on a long-term future in Oklahoma City. That long-term pitch begins immediately. And it [...]
August 5, 2016
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Do the Los Angeles Clippers have a Blake Griffin free-agency conundrum on their hands? Um, maybe. Griffin has an Early Termination Option for 2017-18 and can become a free agent next summer. Bleacher Report’s Ric Bucher has apparently heard he isn’t “wed” to the Clippers and could have wandering eyes when it comes to exploring [...]
July 28, 2016
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According to TMZ, the Los Angeles Clippers assistant equipment manager who Blake Griffin punched during an off-court altercation, Matias Testi, will not be back with the team for 2016-17. Here’s the skinny: The L.A. Clippers equipment staffer who was punched in the face by Blake Griffin during a fight in Toronto earlier this year is [...]
July 28, 2016
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Slow your roll on those Blake Griffin trade rumors, fam. The Los Angeles Clippers have other ideas. They, apparently, want to get another star (or five) to join their current nucleus, not willingly deal one they already employ to a rival NBA team. This latest dispatch comes from the Orange County Register‘s Jeff Miller: Doc [...]
July 22, 2016
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Some friendly advice: Don’t go purchasing any custom Blake Griffin and/or Russell Westbrook Boston Celtics jerseys just yet. Jahlil Okafor orders are totally fine, though. According to A. Sherrod Blakely of CSNNE.com, the Celtics are more likely to trade for the Philadelphia 76ers’ sophomore than they are two deal for either of the Oklahoma City [...]
July 19, 2016
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