The Los Angeles Clipper have already lost Chris Paul in a trade to the Houston Rockets and so it's become a priority to bring back forward Blake Griffin. After a free agent meeting the Clippers held with Griffin, team employees were reportedly wearing a shirt that was pretty tasteless and tacky.
This is what the shirt looks like:
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
And naturally, Twitter is tearing the Clippers apart for this shirt clearly done in poor taste:
lmao man get the clippers out the nba https://t.co/F6PYRZk38K
— THE (@thegeorgeyoung) July 1, 2017
This clippers shirt comparing Blake Griffin to other political and cultural icons is in bad taste pic.twitter.com/tACAOGeRTB
— R. (@blktarheel24) July 1, 2017
Reason 2,457 why clippers are the worst franchise in all pro sports https://t.co/F9nIEeCWr4
— Brendan Cotter (@Therealbwc) July 1, 2017
To liken any NBA player to real-life heroes and political figures like Nelson Mandela, John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama will always be in bad taste. To put Griffin with those guys on a shirt that's graffiti-like in its art is not helping the case to make it "classy" at all either.
There had to have been other ideas or techniques in trying to convince Griffin to stay in Los Angeles. How someone thought this was the best one is absolutely mind-boggling.
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