I know this guy gets paid to say asinine things. I get it. Smith can also have a good take every now and then. But this guy really sounded like a goofball on this one.
For anyone unaware, Blake Griffin used to play for the LA Clippers back in the “Lob City” days. The Clippers are historically one of the worst teams in NBA history. They’ve never even been to the conference finals (remember last year when every ding dong without a brain was giving them the championship despite the fact that they’ve never even BEEN to the finals, let alone a trip to the Western Conference Finals but we don’t need to get into that). Blake Griffin was a franchise player for the Clippers during his time there. After Chris Paul got shipped to Houston, LA claimed they wanted to retain Griffin as a cornerstone.
So they signed him to a max deal (5-years, $171 million contract). During their pitch to keep Griffin, they claimed he would be a “Clipper for life” but that wasn’t the worst part. It actually only gets worse. But it makes sense that the worst franchise in basketball history would also have the most cringe-worthy free-agency pitch in basketball history. They raised Griffin’s jersey up to the rafters in what I can only guess was a way to increase his desire to stay there? Still weird. But the crème de la crème of the entire saga was the t-shirts. Clippers employees were seen wearing shirts with faces of Abe Lincoln, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, Muhammad Ali, Albert Einstein and….Blake Griffin. Now I love Blake I do, but I don’t think he’s quite on the same level as guys like Gandhi, MLK, Obama or Ali. I don’t even know what they were going for on that.
What’s the natural move for the Clippers after that? Obviously you go out and ship that guy off to Siberia-sorry Detroit only six months after you made it look like you’d do anything to keep the guy. They shipped him to Detroit, where he was playing pretty well until some injuries stalled that. Now Griffin has come out and said that he plans to sit out while Detroit weighs in on trade or buyout options for the former All-Star.
And now we’re all caught up.
So apparently Stephen A. Smith has come out and said the LA Clippers would be a good landing spot for Griffin, IF he apologizes to owner Steve Ballmer?! Huh? And here’s the icing on the cake. Smith thinks (which means absolutely nothing) that Griffin owes Ballmer and apology for snubbing him when he was trying to shake Griffin’s hand before a game (after he was traded). Griffin instead made a beeline for the locker room avoiding Ballmer. And he was a billion percent in the right for deciding to do so. Sorry he doesn’t want to talk to Ballmer after he orchestrated all this? But not really cause it a was a low move.
So to get this right. This genius thinks that the player who was duped by an organization (that claimed he would be a “Clipper for life” and mock-retired his jersey in their rafters) is wrong for not accepting his weak handshake. That is BANANAS. But can you really expect more from this guy? He’s a dunce, and he likes to remind us from time to time. If anything, the entire Clippers organization owes him an apology. I mean how do you even think this logically? *Spoiler alert* you don’t.
It feels like he just goes out and puts his foot in his mouth without even thinking. It sounds like Stephen A. Smith and Steve Ballmer have been tackling this one together, because in what world do you actually think Blake is in the wrong?
How I imagine that interaction one right before Blake dipped out to the locker room:
“Oh yeah what’s up Blake?! Remember when we signed you to that 5-year $171 max contract and then we made it seem like you would be here forever? And we made a big deal about being the cornerstone of our franchise? Then we shipped you to Detroit without hesitation LOL! That was classic right! I wanted to say what’s up, see how you’re doing! Oh hey were ya going?! Wow that was so rude of him to not come over to me and greet me after I tried to ship him to Detroit to go die!”
There’s really only about two theories that make sense here:
A) Stephen A. Smith is the biggest goofball on the planet without any real sense of people and situations. In short, he’s a dunce.
B) He does it for ratings, and he’s just a professional dunce.
Either way this is a bananas take, but maybe that was his goal all along.
I just want to know whether or not there are rides in this fantasy land of his.
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