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The Brooklyn Nets are beginning their offseason with a bang as they are expected to hire Sacramento Kings assistant Jordi Fernandez to be their head coach going into next season. As Brooklyn goes through its summer hoping to improve the team as much as possible, one of their former players will be hanging up his sneakers for good.
On Tuesday, former Nets forward Blake Griffin announced his retirement from the NBA after a 13-year career that saw him play for the Los Angeles Clippers, Detroit Pistons, Brooklyn, and the Boston Celtics. Griffin played for the Nets during half of the 2020-21 season and all of the 2021-22 campaign.
Griffin, 35, ends his NBA career with plenty of accomplishments that could see him eventually end up in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame when he is eligible. He averaged 19.0 points, 8.0 rebounds, and 4.0 assists while shooting 49.3% from the field and 32.8% from three-point land.
In his post on X, Griffin said that he didn’t see himself as the guy who would be writing a retirement letter, but that he wrote the letter to express his “thankfulness” for the career that he had. The Nets official “X” account posted a thank you message to Griffin for his years of service to Brooklyn during the Big 3 era.
For the Nets, Griffin averaged 7.5 points and 4.3 rebounds per game as he was giving as much as he could towards the end of his career. To his credit, Griffin helped Brooklyn advance to the second round of the playoffs during the 2020-21 season before losing to the Milwaukee Bucks in seven games.
Blake Griffin played 2 seasons for the Brooklyn Nets and averaged 7.5 points and 4.3 rebounds per game. However, most of Griffin’s impact in the NBA came prior to Brooklyn. He did help the Nets get to the second round of the playoffs in the 2020-21 before losing to the Bucks. https://t.co/Hhs1quIurq
— Sharif Phillips-Keaton (@SharifKeaton) April 16, 2024
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Congrats on a helluva career, @blakegriffin23! https://t.co/dNn5uz7dOD pic.twitter.com/yxwRmlWclO
— Brooklyn Nets (@BrooklynNets) April 16, 2024