According to Adrienne Jordanovski, Brooklyn used one of its veteran minimum contracts lost to sign Griffin, who will likely be used as a small ball center off the bench.

Not only is he joining the Big Three on a quest for a title, but also former Clippers teammate DeAndre Jordan.

So, Max, what do you think?

Will Griffin have a little big or no or no impact?

There you go on the team this year, I'll say a small impact, and I'll say so, giving him the benefit that the benefit of the doubt, thinking that he'll be very motivated to be the best version of himself on this Brooklyn team.

But I take no pleasure in saying this.

I remember when Blake broke into the league and I was out in L.

A doing afternoon drive, um, on ESPN radio and it's a Laker station, but you couldn't ignore what was happening with the Clippers.

Blake Griffin looked like he had a chance to be one of the greatest power forwards who ever lived.

He was his like it was something different athletically, but it didn't quite pan out that way.

He was an all Star, not an M V P.

It didn't quite pan out that way.

And and after he got injured, he hasn't been the same guys, you know, The last time Blake Griffin dunked, Jalen Rose pointed this out a month ago or something like that conducted two years, two years in two years since he dumped the basketball.

So you take that away from Blake, and what do you have?

He's not really a defender, and it's not even just not built like a defender.

Defenders aren't the barrel chested guys.

They're like the lanky, long armed dudes complaint defense.

Usually right.

He's not built like a defender.

And he's not a defender, really.

Not a shot blocker, not a rim protector.

He's not a shooter.

He takes six threes a game.

He hits under 32% of them.

So what is it exactly that Blake now does?

That's additive, right?

How does he How does he positively affect the team?

I'm willing to believe, given the amount of time he hung around as an All Star and given his basketball savvy at this point in his career that a fully motivated Blake Griffin as a center, maybe in a small ball lineup.

That idea has been floated.

Um, we'll have some marginal positive value, but Stephen A.

I think that's what it is.

He's Blake in name only.

At this point, I think you're sleeping.

I think you're sleeping on what he can bring to the table.

But it's understandable.

As you know, um, you know, listen, from time to time, I do have to teach you the game of basketball.

I understand this stuff back.

So let me, let me let me let me school you about something here.

Max Stephens Naysmith that Stephen A.

Smith.

There you go.

There you go.

Here's the deal Seriously, Blake Griffin is not a number one option.

He's not a number two options.

Here's the beauty.

He doesn't even have to be a number four option or Brooklyn.

You're forgetting that the people that you play with what you're surrounded by has a profound impact on how you can perform when you're not asked to do, but so much any longer.

When I think about Blake Blake Griffin's, uh, you know, athleticism census injuries.

It's dissipated to some degree.

There's no question about it, but I think primarily the issue in Brooklyn I'm sorry in Detroit was the fact that he didn't want to be there.

He was completely knew that it was a team going nowhere.

You knew they were in rebuilding mode.

He never wanted to leave.

He never wanted to depart L.

A.

Which is why he ran off instead of shaking hands with Steve Balmer.

When he came back for a visit.

He never wanted to leave.

He liked being another L.

A of Detroit where you wanna be.

I know where I want to be.

So we understand thing against Detroit.

Detroit We love the city.

But come on now, let's just be real with it.

And so I'm just talking strictly weather.

And so, as a result of that, you look at it from that perspective.

He wasn't that interested.

Max.

The guy has played in 38 games in, like, 19 of the last, Uh, the last 20 months or so 38 games.

He hasn't been playing all right.

The last time we saw him in the full seasons, every 24 a half points a game.

When I think about that and I think about him rest, you know, you know, reuniting rather with DeAndre Jordan and I think about James Harden and Kyrie and then you add K D to the mix.

Excuse me, you gotta worry about those three.

I'm sorry.

Blake Griffin is no scrub.

He's not somebody that you can sit up there and leave alone.

And he's not somebody that you can easily guard one on one.

And because you'll have to prioritize focusing on the other three when it really, really counts, that's from a basketball perspective.

Then you've got the motivational element that we can't ignore.

Then you've got the fact that he's reunited with his teammate in DeAndre, Jordan.

All of those things coming together.

And Brooklyn desperately needed a bigger by another big body because all you really had was DeAndre Jordan and obviously shipping Jared Allen off to Cleveland.

So you've got Jeff Green and Jeff Jeff Green, but I'm saying not as a big body, not as a big body, but Jeff Green can ball, but again, Blake Griffin enables you to go small.

Let me ask you this question.

If you had James Harden, Kyree Irvin K D.

On the court with Jeff Green and Blake Griffin to go small.

That's nothing to sneeze at Joe Harris or Joe Harris.

What I'm saying.

So, in other words, Blake Griffin can work with this group.

If he were going someplace else where he was asked to be a number one or two options, I would have a problem with that.

I would side with you, but him being in Brooklyn, I think it's one of the perfect landing spots.

I think he helped elevate them, and I think he elevates them significantly because he gives you an extra body that can do some things.

Not on a night and night out basis, but I'm talking about sporadically.

Can Blake Griffin go out there and give you 20 or 30?

Yes, he cares.

I'm saying I yes, but that's a small difference.

Like it's not a little different when you consider their US.

Joe Harris is whether he's starting or however you're gonna do it in crunch time.

Joe Harris should be on the floor.

He's the best shooter on the team, amazingly right.

In fact, in our morning meeting, when we were talking about, like, you know, Do they have a big four?

I was stumped.

I mean, I was like, Wait, people considering Joe Harris, part of the Big Four because that's how I viewed Blake Griffin the last couple of years, I think of Shawn Kemp.

I think of Larry Johnson.

These were like like Blake Griffin.

They were once a certain kind of player, and they were all stars, and they had to reinvent themselves as their careers went on.

Do the injury age size.

Whatever he did, Larry Johnson is back.

Yeah, right.

And they did.

Larry Johnson was one of the highest I Q players I've ever seen on the absolutely.

But he couldn't jump anymore.

He wasn't as good as he wants, but he reinvented himself and he was still formidable.

Shaun kept to got down in the post.

Wasn't wasn't like high flying anymore, you know.

But his game was predicated on that.

That was never the case with Larry Johnson, but Larry Johnson wasn't a Skywalker when he was at at UNLV, but he could jump.

He couldn't jump.

He was.

He was massive with a man with boys, but he was getting he wasn't a jump without getting without getting bogged down into Larry Johnson.

Done Anderson Hunt with jumpers, not him.

But what I'm saying is there are guys who reinvented themselves.

I don't know that Blake can do that on a level to make him a big deal.

Think he has to.

But who he's replacing in this lineup, really, or when he's on the floor.

That's really Jeff Green.

What you're really asking is, what premium does this version of Blake Griffin in a small ball lineup playing the five give you over Jeff Green?

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