T'wolves owner says Griffin will probably be let go

What a waste of talent and space.

 

what did he say during his Fox 26 interview when they interviewed him when he was a free agent? Something along the lines of "teams are going to regret that they didn't sign me" to some degree like that. What a waste of talent, I was one of the biggest Eddie Griffin supporter when he was with us, my cousins in SA bragged about Tony Parker during their rookie year and I stood up for the guy, and I even bought his jersey in which I still own. Its a sad to see what he's going through.

 

I'll give you a buck for it.

 

Eddie Griffin doesn't have tons of potential. That is wishful thinking. In 4 1/2 years, we know he is a poor mid-range shooter, poor post player, poor 3 pointer shooter, mediocre defender, decent shot blocker who is not very intelligent and is not capable of even average production over an NBA season.

The word potential would only apply to Eddie Griffin in a very remote sense. He is an NBA bust who has flat-lined (or declined) since his rookie year.

 

A guy who wasted the gifts that god gave him.

DD

 

The only smart decision he ever made was coming out after his freshman year and collect a few million bucks before everybody eventually discovered his poor basketball skills.

 

They're going to release him?!?! We should sign him! He's truly made us regret releasing him!

 

van gundy screws him over again. doesn't he realize this kid is an athletic 6'9" with a jumper and legit shot-blocking skills. didn't even give him a chance.
another example of veterans over rookies.


oh wait....

 

Who didn't see this coming...

 

I noticed that you made no mention of wanting to sign him. Have you FINALLY seen the light? Or have you gone soft on us?

 

I always thought releasing him outright when we still had to pay his contract was dumb...I still think that.

And, I was willing to take the risk of signing him to a one year miniumum contract.....

Not anymore !

DD

 

probably?

 

SO is it nbadl or some strange foreign country for Eddie?

 

This guy is freakin pathetic.

 

The only dumb things about the Rockets and Eddie Griffin was drafting him in the first place and not cutting him sooner.

 

They should just cut him and stop JERKING him around. The NBA needs their own wonderlick test.

 

hahaha, jerking...he is famous for that

 

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Griffin's sad plight troubling to high school coach
By John Smallwood

Philadelphia Daily News

(MCT)

PHILADELPHIA - Dennis Seddon has seen pictures. He knows the face, but no longer recognizes the man.

This is not the Eddie Griffin he knew.

This is not the young man he coached at Roman Catholic High School, the one with so much potential as a basketball player and a person.

"He seems to be a very different person now," says Seddon, in his 22nd season of coaching at Roman Catholic. "I've seen pictures of him and had to do a double take because I didn't recognize him.

"He had that scowl on his face and was trying to look all hard. That was not the Eddie I knew."

Griffin, only 24, is near rock bottom these days.

The promising future that he should be realizing is instead crumbling around him.

Griffin, who was selected seventh overall in the 2001 NBA draft, hasn't played a game for the Minnesota Timberwolves since Dec. 13.

Before Griffin completed his recent five-game drug-test suspension, Minnesota owner Glen Taylor had all but said the troubled forward never would play another game for the Wolves.

The word out of Minnesota is that the Timberwolves are trying to find a way to terminate the rest of the three-year, $8.1 million contract Griffin signed before the start of the 2005-06 season or reach a buyout agreement.

Like the New Jersey Nets and Houston Rockets before them, the Wolves simply decided that trying to tap into Griffin's potential is no longer worth the baggage of dealing with his alcoholism and other personal issues.

Griffin's last alcohol-related drama was on March 30, 2006.

He was involved in a car crash that witnesses claimed was caused because he was watching a pornographic DVD and masturbating while driving.

Although the accident report does not indicate that police at the scene required Griffin to submit to a Breathalyzer test, Griffin was reportedly recorded on the security camera of a convenience store saying he was drunk and did not have a driver's license.

He also was recorded as pleading with the man whose SUV he hit to not call the police. He allegedly offered to buy the man a new car if he would keep the police out of the matter.

Seddon doesn't know what to make of Griffin's fall from grace. He just knows it saddens him.

"I never thought it would come to this," Seddon says of Griffin, a player some said was the best big man to come out of a Philadelphia high school since Wilt Chamberlain. "When he was at Roman Catholic, he was a different person.

"We never saw any of this coming."

There was the fight with a teammate during his senior year at Roman Catholic that caused Griffin to get suspended, but no one saw it as a harbinger of the waves of disturbing trouble that followed.

"I think it was a case of too much too soon," Seddon says about what he believes happened to Griffin, "and you don't know how to handle it.

"You're 17 years old and suddenly you're responsible for supporting your entire family. Too soon, suddenly there are a lot of strings attached and responsibilities that you didn't know you were going to have."

Seddon concedes that his conclusions are only speculation. He doesn't know for sure what happened because he hasn't spoken to Griffin since 2001 - not for a lack of trying, however.

"We've reached out to (Griffin) a number of times," Seddon says. "I've written letters to the Timberwolves and before that the Houston Rockets when he was with them.

"I've talked to a few friends of his that he was close with. (Griffin) has never responded back to us. It's been a couple of years since I spoke to him, I guess not since Seton Hall."

Griffin played one season at Seton Hall before entering the NBA in 2001.

Seddon thinks about the athletic kid with the shooting range of a guard and reflects about what could have been.

"He could have been an All-Star-caliber player in the NBA with what he brought to the table," Seddon says. "He's 6-9 with range on his shot. Not too many guys at his size can do what he could."

It's for that very reason that some NBA team might give Griffin another chance if he can finally clean up his personal life. That's business in professional sports.

Seddon, however, is more concerned with Eddie Griffin the person than Eddie Griffin the product.

Assuming Griffin didn't lose it all in alcohol-related stupors, he still has made millions of dollars during his so-far failed basketball career. A positive future still can be Griffin's, even without the NBA.

"He is only 24 years old," Seddon says. "He's been through hell, but he's got his whole life ahead of him.

"I just want him to know that we are here for him. We don't want anything from him, like some other people may have. We just want him to be happy.

"Hopefully, he'll read this article and know that we are here for him. We just care for Eddie, the person."
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Sad. I wonder what is going on in Eddie's head?

 

what is this gift everyone keeps talking about? he sucks.