BOSTON -- LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer on Saturday said that trading Blake Griffin was "a very difficult decision," but that considerations about the future, as well as injury and chemistry concerns, necessitated the blockbuster deal with the Detroit Pistons.
"[Griffin] is obviously a superstar player," said Ballmer. "But if you look at what happened injury-wise, if you look at the kind of chemistry we were getting on our team, the thing you can see at the high level with the numbers when I started -- one guy got all the assists, one guy got all the points and one guy got all the rebounds.