A FEW MONTHS BACK, Blake Griffin announced he was quitting comedy, his favorite extracurricular activity away from basketball, to pursue music as his next sideline. This declaration was the premise of the four-part mockumentary-ish "Comedy by Blake" digital series for Funny or Die.
After Jeff Ross broke the news with a smirk in one scene, Neal Brennan cracked that, "Moving from comedy to music to help people is like moving from L.A. to Detroit to become better known." Griffin could hardly contain laughter.
It's been nearly a year since Griffin was traded from the LA Clippers, the team that drafted him in 2009, to the Detroit Pistons in a bombshell deal that went largely undetected by the league's 24-hour digital monitoring system until it was complete.