Jerry West Major Reason He Re-Signed With Clippers Say’s Blake Griffin

Chris Paul pushed his way out of Los Angeles on the eve of free office, pushing the Clippers into an exchange with the Rockets so CP3 could combine with James Harden. The following inquiry was would Blake Griffin take after Paul away.

Rather, it took him only a couple of hours to re-sign with the Clippers (a five-year, $173 million max bargain he couldn’t have become anyplace else).

For what reason did he remain? He said the expansion of Jerry West to the Clipper front office influenced him, addressing Shams Charania of The Vertical at Yahoo Sports.

“Jerry had a major voice to me, and he’s had an influence in coming and working on the culture here,” Griffin told The Vertical. “This franchise had unfinished business, and I had unfinished business here. We had unfinished business together and I valued that. We laid it out there that no matter what was going on around us, both sides hadn’t accomplished what we set out for.

“I couldn’t abandon this now.”

Let’s get straight to the point, there are 173 million reasons that Griffin investigated the Clippers, in addition to he looking at a career in the film and media outlet after his playing days, and he as of now has that going in Los Angeles. There were a great deal of components in his choice. DJ Hustle

Jerry West and his impact on the association is plainly one of them. The Clippers transferred ownership of him from the Warriors after the season.  Steve Ballmer acknowledged the time had come to proceed onward from the mentor/GM explore in Los Angeles (a trend that we could see cease to exist in different establishments within the near future), and Lawrence Frank in charge has demonstrated a consistent hand. West brings a lifetime of good choices as a GM