Blake Griffin #23 of the Detroit Pistons. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)
The Detroit Pistons bought out Blake Griffin and he has officially cleared waivers and joined the Brooklyn Nets, likely on a league-minimum deal.
The Pistons will essentially be paying Griffin to play for the Nets, even though he did give back some of the massive sum remaining on his contract, which gave the Pistons a small amount of cap space.
He didn’t really have to do it, but then again the Detroit Pistons could have just parked him on the bench and forced him to watch them lose for the next two seasons instead, so both sides got something out of the arrangement.