CHAMPAIGN — Alan Griffin has moved multiple times growing up, following his dad, Adrian, from one NBA stop to the next both during the latter’s playing career and when he moved from the court to the sideline as a coach.
That included time in places like Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Milwaukee and now New York.
If there’s one place Griffin said he considers home, though, it’s Chicago. He started high school at Oak Park-River Forest when his dad was an assistant on Tom Thibodeau’s Chicago Bulls staff. Another move got him to the east coast after his dad went from the Bulls to Orlando Magic and now Oklahoma City Thunder.