Six-time All-Star forward Blake Griffin has agreed to a deal to join the Brooklyn Nets for the rest of the season.
The Nets are using one of their veteran-minimum-contract slots to sign Griffin.
Because Brooklyn will be in the luxury tax next season, the most they could offer Griffin as a free agent is the $5.9 million taxpayer mid-level exception. However, Griffin will earn $29.8 million from Detroit next year and has $255 million in career earnings.
Griffin was traded less than a season into a five-year, $171 million max deal with the Los Angeles Clippers, arriving in Detroit in late-January 2018.
Griffin averaged 12.3 points, 5.2 rebounds and 3.9 assists in 20 games for Detroit this season.
The Nets are using one of their veteran-minimum-contract slots to sign Griffin.
Because Brooklyn will be in the luxury tax next season, the most they could offer Griffin as a free agent is the $5.9 million taxpayer mid-level exception. However, Griffin will earn $29.8 million from Detroit next year and has $255 million in career earnings.
Griffin was traded less than a season into a five-year, $171 million max deal with the Los Angeles Clippers, arriving in Detroit in late-January 2018.
Griffin averaged 12.3 points, 5.2 rebounds and 3.9 assists in 20 games for Detroit this season.
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