Despite leading the Detroit Pistons to a playoffs berth this season, there have been some rumors about former Los Angeles Clippers star Blake Griffin being a bit bored with life in the Motor City.
However, the 29-year-old All-Star power forward was having absolutely none of this and said that he barely misses the fast-paced life in Los Angeles.
“As far as getting settled and feeling at home here, it was so easy, because it feels so much like Oklahoma,” Griffin says, via Ric Bucher of Bleacher Report. “You live 20 miles from somewhere, it takes you 20 minutes to get there. It's not like L.A., five miles takes you 30 minutes. I'm used to this type of flow, this type of feel.”
Griffin went on to explain that despite having spent the first eight years of his NBA career in L.A., he is still a small-town boy through and through.
“For the first 19 years of my life, this is all I knew until I went to L.A. And even then, when I needed to get away and really recharge, I'd go home to Oklahoma,” he expressed. “I don't think people saw that.
Nevertheless, there was reportedly some concern within the team with regards to Griffin's arrival in Detroit in the middle of last season and whether his “Hollywood attitude” would be a problem.
“Having been in the limelight for so long, yeah, we wondered how he'd adjust,” point guard Reggie Jackson says. “It's very different here, but he came in and embraced it. I was actually shocked by it.”
The Pistons are slated to face off the league-best Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday night in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference playoffs matchup. It's definitely going to be a tough test for Detroit, but it is by no means out of reach.
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