Blake Griffin Apologizes Like a Winner

Blake Griffin hit up the Redbook of men’s sports, The Player’s Tribune, to drop a lengthy and very personal apology to Clipper’s fans for punching an equipment manager last season and breaking his hand and for the Clipper’s sucking in the playoffs every season. The letter took seven months of earnest reflection to come together. 

As with all celebrity apologies, there’s a martyrdom twist. Griffin notes how he and his fellow Clippers players have to endure the fact that Los Angeles is a Lakers town. It’s downright discrimination. Or the fact that the Lakers have won ten championship since 1980 and the Clippers haven’t even made it to a Finals. Griffin notes how he gets booed at Dodgers Stadium. Even Chris Paul and his “adorable” son get booed. Griffin fails to mention that on the scale of Dodgers fan gang banger responses that include and up to curbings, stompings, and fat women with shoulder tattoos sucker smashing bottles over your head, booing is very close to endearing.

Griffin’s emo essay overlooks the obvious. Nobody gives a shit about you when you’re losing. Conversely, Kobe Bryant sodomized a chick in Aspen then flew back in the middle of his assault trial to make a playoff game and score more rings. Even rape counselors in Los Angeles gets wistful tears in their eyes speaking of Kobe Bryant to this day. Ray Lewis has a statue in front of the Ravens stadium. The percentage of fans in the Boston area who believe Tom Brady cheats approximates zero. Also it is zero. You can’t even find a New Englander to admit Brady now and then perhaps bitches and moans to the refs about calls. 

Put down the pen, Griffin, and consider the consequences of 30 points and 15 boards in games that don’t matter, while sitting on the bench in the 4th quarter of must-win games with 9 points and a confused look on your face. Apologies are for people who can’t win. The Player’s Tribune is for their mothers. 

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