Blake Griffin performed his thirteenth NBA season in Boston final yr, entering into 41 video games as a reserve large for the Celtics. He is well-liked within the locker room, was on an reasonably priced veteran minimal contract, and the Celtics have an open roster spot this season. Boston additionally has been wanting so as to add depth to the frontcourt, which is why they traded for Xavier Tillman on the commerce deadline.
Teammates needed Griffin again and reached out to him making an attempt to get the return, each Derrick White and Payton Pritchard stated on Barstool Sports activities “Pardon My Take” Monday (hat tip Brian Robb at Mass Stay).
“I do not know [if he’s coming back]. We begged him to,” Pritchard advised PMT.
“I believe the entire workforce has been begging him to,’ White added…
“I texted him really every week in the past or two jokingly being like, ‘Coming again for one final experience?’ He says he is having fun with his life,” Pritchard stated.
Griffin was a participant who had a real sense of himself, discovered issues he liked to do off the courtroom (comedy amongst them) and was snug transferring on from basketball. He and former NFL participant Ryan Kalil are companions within the manufacturing firm Mortal Media (the corporate behind the “White Males Cannot Bounce” reboot).
Nonetheless, it needs to be tough to show down yet one more playoff run with a workforce that’s the present favourite to win all of it. Boston has an open roster spot however is already into the second tax apron ($18.3 million above the posh tax line), in order that minimal contract will hit tougher. If the Celtics are open to it, would Griffin be?
It seems like a agency no, however by no means say by no means across the NBA.