OT: Blake Griffin is a Piston
Per Woj:
Clippers trying to free-up for Lebron?
Who (and what) would we be letting go?
Either way -- big (potential) news!
EDIT
From the comments, it's possibly quite the steep asking price: Bradley, Tobias, Boban, and our first-round pick.
EDIT #2
Per Woj, done deal:
January 29th, 2018 at 7:28 PM ^
January 29th, 2018 at 7:32 PM ^
Man we gave up a lot of a possibly decline phase injury prone big man. Not a huge fan of this move, especially in the modern spacing focused NBA.
January 29th, 2018 at 7:42 PM ^
28. Guys can play into their mid to late 30s.
Age is not the worry. The injury stuff yes.
And you know Blake can shoot the ball, yes? He's not lethal from three, but he's got a great mid-range jumper.
January 29th, 2018 at 8:32 PM ^
28 with a lot of miles (this is his 9th year in the league? 10th?), and a lot of injuries. And his shooting has improved a lot in recent years, but he's still primarily an inside the arc player.
January 29th, 2018 at 7:48 PM ^
January 29th, 2018 at 8:29 PM ^
Heres why I know this was a great trade for the pistons:
A Republican is in office. Look at how the Pistons did under Obama (zilch), under Bush (going to work pistons) under clinton (grant hill I guess) under bush/reagan (bad boys). Thats as far back as I go, but its uncanny how their fortunes changed with the Whitehouse's.
January 29th, 2018 at 8:48 PM ^
January 29th, 2018 at 9:12 PM ^
January 29th, 2018 at 10:21 PM ^
January 29th, 2018 at 9:15 PM ^
January 29th, 2018 at 9:28 PM ^
Not a bad trade. Avery and Harris felt like they maxed out their value, and for all of Griffin's injury issues he is an elite player when healthy and is having a pretty good year. This won't fundamentally change the NBA landscape, but Griffin has already shown he can work with a defense-first big man, and in the East he should have easier nights than he did out West.
January 29th, 2018 at 9:46 PM ^
Shoot; unless Chris Paul has something against Avery Bradley or Tobias Harris, the Clippers-Rockets game on 2/28 just got a lot less interesting
January 29th, 2018 at 9:59 PM ^
January 29th, 2018 at 10:07 PM ^
January 29th, 2018 at 11:05 PM ^
January 30th, 2018 at 2:20 AM ^
Well I'll at least watch the Pistons again to see what they look like instead of just looking at the box scores.
The issue remains that even if it does work having 2 big men they're still surrounded by shit and don't have any money to spend. If it doesn't work that contract is terrible.
January 30th, 2018 at 2:22 AM ^
It also gave us a break from watching all the couches in East Lansing burning.
January 30th, 2018 at 3:35 PM ^
January 30th, 2018 at 11:47 PM ^
Drummond plays good defense. He is slow on rotations too often but has stepped up this year.