Blake Griffin To Agree Upon Five-Year, $173M Contract With Clippers

Post #1 » by **RealGM Wiretap** » Sat Jul 1, 2017 1:28 am

Blake Griffin plans on signing a five-year, $173 million contract with the Los Angeles Clippers.

Griffin canceled meetings with the Phoenix Suns and Denver Nuggets.

Via Shams Charania/The Vertical

Elnegron · Post #2 » by **Elnegron** » Sat Jul 1, 2017 1:36 am

Lots of money for a guy that can't train till December

Sam195 · Post #3 » by **Sam195** » Sat Jul 1, 2017 1:41 am

Blake wants to be melo of la - god bless him. Take the money and run son - oh i forgot your injured. Blake is never going to win and will slip into irrelevancy like former clipper star elton brand. Like melo - griffin will be well known in his market for his personality more so than his game - rest of the league he will be known as the star who can never win.

FMX · Post #4 » by **FMX** » Sat Jul 1, 2017 1:44 am

35 million for a guy that cant be the man and cant stay healthy.

EdAram21 · Post #5 » by **EdAram21** » Sat Jul 1, 2017 1:49 am

I hope he balls out this upcoming year. Have a Westbrook like season and go nuts, if he can stay healthy. That's a pretty huge "if" tho.

imDatknicksTape · Post #6 » by **imDatknicksTape** » Sat Jul 1, 2017 1:54 am

Sam195 wrote:Blake wants to be melo of la - god bless him. Take the money and run son - oh i forgot your injured. Blake is never going to win and will slip into irrelevancy like former clipper star elton brand. Like melo - griffin will be well known in his market for his personality more so than his game - rest of the league he will be known as the star who can never win.

except melo has taken his team to playoffs the first ten years of his career to the best of his ability. Dont compare melo to BG again. Melo never got to play for a player like CP3 caliber in his prime nor a great coach like doc. so BG has had plenty of opportunities hes just injury prone

cw3k · Post #7 » by **cw3k** » Sat Jul 1, 2017 2:48 am

imDatknicksTape wrote:
Sam195 wrote:Blake wants to be melo of la - god bless him. Take the money and run son - oh i forgot your injured. Blake is never going to win and will slip into irrelevancy like former clipper star elton brand. Like melo - griffin will be well known in his market for his personality more so than his game - rest of the league he will be known as the star who can never win.

except melo has taken his team to playoffs the first ten years of his career to the best of his ability. Dont compare melo to BG again. Melo never got to play for a player like CP3 caliber in his prime nor a great coach like doc. so BG has had plenty of opportunities hes just injury prone

Melo forced out any half decent players Knicks have. In the matter of face, no players played with Melo has improved, stats went to trash.

Melo has never takes the Knicks to the playoff himself.

On 2011-2012, it was Lin that saved the Knicks season

On 2012-2013, it was Kidd's leaderships that got the Knicks to playoff.

Melo has done absolutely nothing for the Knicks since Kidd left.

Beethoven · Post #8 » by **Beethoven** » Sat Jul 1, 2017 3:21 am

Wow...

too much money , way overpriced

Adam Stern · Post #9 » by **Adam Stern** » Sat Jul 1, 2017 3:36 am

Show me the money!!! :lol:

BigTex · Post #10 » by **BigTex** » Sat Jul 1, 2017 4:07 am

Absolutely THE correct decision by Griffin. Not sure what the Clips were thinking. Maybe someone else would have paid him that, but if they believed that, they should have traded him at the deadline in 2016, if not this year. Nithungwirse than overpaying for mediocrity. And that's what they'll be, even if Griffin is reasonably healthy.

nicholas88 · Post #11 » by **nicholas88** » Sat Jul 1, 2017 4:14 am

Thank God, it was somebody else than the Phoenix Suns.

M. Chriss, is already more productive than Griffin. Proof is the up-coming statistics. And, not including the $173 million contract.

Cookin Baskets · Post #12 » by **Cookin Baskets** » Sat Jul 1, 2017 4:19 am

Clippers should have gone in another direction without Chris Paul this year and let Griffin go as well. Blake Griffin recieved a huge pay day and this will probably bite the clippers starting around year 3 of that contract cause of injuries I think.

totalrekall · Post #13 » by **totalrekall** » Sat Jul 1, 2017 4:45 am

totally understandable move by the Clippers. they dont want to return to the doormat of the NBA. they were going to have a very difficult time signing FAs if they didnt have a "star" player. Griffin keeps fans coming to games even if he isnt a superstar. I personally wouldnt be comfortable giving him all that money but the alternative could be really bad. what were their options? any other stars coming to this team after CP3 and Blake leave?

Clemenza · Post #14 » by **Clemenza** » Sat Jul 1, 2017 5:46 am

imDatknicksTape wrote:
Sam195 wrote:Blake wants to be melo of la - god bless him. Take the money and run son - oh i forgot your injured. Blake is never going to win and will slip into irrelevancy like former clipper star elton brand. Like melo - griffin will be well known in his market for his personality more so than his game - rest of the league he will be known as the star who can never win.

except melo has taken his team to playoffs the first ten years of his career to the best of his ability. Dont compare melo to BG again. Melo never got to play for a player like CP3 caliber in his prime nor a great coach like doc. so BG has had plenty of opportunities hes just injury prone

Huh?

Future Coach · Post #15 » by **Future Coach** » Sat Jul 1, 2017 5:52 am

nicholas88 wrote:Thank God, it was somebody else than the Phoenix Suns.

M. Chriss, is already more productive than Griffin. Proof is the up-coming statistics. And, not including the $173 million contract.

I agree it would have been a bad move for the Suns. In some ways he is a bit of an Amar'e clone, so he would sell jerseys, but they wouldn't win anything worthwhile. Plus, as you said, Chriss has some potential.

But you can't say someone is already more productive, and then point to the future as proof. That is not how providing proof works. And/or that isn't how the word "already" is meant to be used.