Here’s Milwaukee Bucks star Damian Lillard on his reaction to the firing of Adrian Griffin.
(via Milwaukee Bucks):
“I think it was like everybody else, just kind of surprised by it. As long as I’ve been in the league I haven’t seen where a team is having success; and then something like that happens. But I’ve also been around long enough to know that it’s part of the business. There’s expectations. There’s been a lot of expectations on our team. Things have been expected to look a certain way. We’ve kind of had a bumpy road to our success, which is sometimes a part of the process. But like I said, I’m surprised. But it’s part of the game. People get traded, people get waived, people get fired, and that’s never something you want to see.
“As a person you never want to witness somebody go through that and experience that and pick up their life and just move on to the next thing, because at the end of the day, we all go home to our personal time and our personal lives and deal with our emotions and experiences. So you don’t wish that on nobody, but I think we all come into this game understanding that it’s part of it and it’s unfortunate. Griff was a great dude. I enjoyed being around him. He was very accommodating to me and a lot of my personal situation. So I appreciate him and I appreciate the time that we had together, but it’s part of the game and it’s the unfortunate side of it.”
