NORMAN — It's formally the Griffin Family Performance Center, but to OU basketball players, it's just “The Griff.”
The $7 million facility opened in June, but Saturday — officially proclaimed Blake Griffin Day by the city of Norman — OU's newest athletics facility was dedicated. Griffin, his brother Taylor and his parents along with university president Jim Gallogly and athletic director Joe Castiglione, all with scissors in hand, took a snip at the crimson ribbon to officially open the center.
“Family” was a necessary inclusion in the name.
“There was a rendering early on that was the Blake Griffin Performance Center and I hated it,” Griffin said.