The Los Angeles Clippers are once again being hammered for the ridiculous shirts their employees wore to their meeting with Blake Griffin.
The shirts, shared by Marc J. Spears of the Undefeated, depict Griffin as a pioneer — alongside the likes of Muhammad Ali, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Einstein, and Michael Jackson.
Clippers employees wore T-shirt after Blake Griffin's FA meeting likening him to MLK, Obama, Ali, JFK, Lincoln, Gandhi, MJ,Einstein,Mandela. pic.twitter.com/BZtXqhdrWr
— Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpearsESPN) July 1, 2017
The Clippers were, as you would expect, raked over the coals immediately.
the only person on this clippers shirt id compare blake griffin to is muhammad ali + that's just cuz they've both punched people in the face
— Bryan Kalbrosky (@BryanKalbrosky) July 1, 2017
— Bradley Gelber (@BradleyGelber) July 1, 2017
Celebrating the news of Blake Griffin re-signing with the Clippers and then seeing the shirt the team used in the meeting to re-sign him. pic.twitter.com/G2Vek4sbTb
— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) July 1, 2017
*Clippers employee resets "Days without the organization having a race controversy" calendar from 1183 to 0* https://t.co/EogAy8lze8
— Scoops Maroun (@ejmaroun) July 1, 2017
Kanye will be so angry when he finds out he wasn't included. https://t.co/sICUqRgWXE
— Dan Woike (@DanWoikeSports) July 1, 2017
Dan Woike of the Los Angeles Times actually reasoned that the shirts may have been a ploy to amuse Griffin.
Also, if there's one person in the NBA who would chuckle at that T-shirt, I think it'd be Blake Griffin.
— Dan Woike (@DanWoikeSports) July 1, 2017
Whatever the case, it worked. Griffin re-signed almost immediately. But we’re going to be hearing about this for a while.
