It’s been exactly one year since “Clipper for life” Blake Griffin had his life flipped upside down and inside out. On January 29th, 2018, Griffin and then Los Angeles teammates Brice Johnson and Willie Reed were hastily shipped to Detroit in exchange for Tobias Harris, Avery Bradley, Boban Marjanovic, a first-round 2018 draft pick and a second-round 2019 draft pick. The high-profile swap caught the entire league by surprise, including the man in the middle:
The late-January “it’s just business” Los Angeles to Detroit move cost Griffin peace of mind regarding his basketball future, the only professional address he’s ever known, and about 40 degrees of warmer weather.