{"id":298296,"date":"2024-04-18T04:18:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T09:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/blake-griffin-has-big-future-in-comedy-after-nba-retirement-brad-williams-says"},"modified":"2024-04-18T04:18:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T09:18:21","slug":"blake-griffin-has-big-future-in-comedy-after-nba-retirement-brad-williams-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/blake-griffin-has-big-future-in-comedy-after-nba-retirement-brad-williams-says","title":{"rendered":"Blake Griffin Has &#039;Huge Future&#039; In Comedy After NBA Retirement, Brad Williams Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div readability=\"44.1163500678\">\n<section id=\"cb-ba782401229ac70b3d9aa1b5cae8ad93\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-video-block canvas-video-block-permalink canvas-video-block--default  canvas-block-is-first \">\n<div class=\"video-block\">\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\">\n<div id=\"video-player-672e1cd1-4724-42f2-b0df-740eef7762b5-1766359292-image-holder\" class=\"ratio ratio-item video-block__image-holder\">\n          <button class=\"ratio-item icon-video--shadow video-block__icon\" id=\"video-player-672e1cd1-4724-42f2-b0df-740eef7762b5-1766359292-play-btn\"><br \/>\n            <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Play video content<\/span><br \/>\n          <\/button><br \/>\n                                        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/29\/16by9\/2024\/04\/17\/29369b01520d438394b7628ffa230af7_md.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n                  <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                    <span class=\"media-credit video-block__media-credit\">TMZSports.com<\/span>\n          <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-ba782401229ac70b3d9aa1b5cae8ad93--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-0697182cb9a82ef5d5cf52f5695a1e98\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default  \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"25.4095238095\">\n<p>Comedy star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/brad-williams\/\"><strong>Brad Williams<\/strong><\/a> says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/blake-griffin\/\"><strong>Blake Griffin<\/strong><\/a> could easily go from setting screens to setting up jokes now that he&#8217;s retired from the NBA &#8230; telling <strong>TMZ Sports <\/strong>the former hooper is legitimately good at standup.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-0697182cb9a82ef5d5cf52f5695a1e98--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-1c7b68321e5c0e28fe2642732009b386\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default  \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"25.6589861751\">\n<p>Williams said out in L.A. on Tuesday &#8212; just hours after Griffin announced he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2024\/04\/16\/blake-griffin-announces-retirement-nba\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>hanging up his basketball<\/strong><\/a> sneakers &#8212; that he&#8217;s seen the ex-Clippers forward rock the mic before &#8230; and he&#8217;s been seriously impressed.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-1c7b68321e5c0e28fe2642732009b386--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-c94f25e4b46e70162e3df2963833e21e\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-gallery-block canvas-gallery-block-permalink canvas-gallery-block--default  \">\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-c94f25e4b46e70162e3df2963833e21e--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-c7b1f5b985359b86d3215af31e86421a\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default  \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"29\">\n<p>And, Williams told us if Griffin uses his newfound free time to really commit to standup &#8212; he could be a real player in the comedy world.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-c7b1f5b985359b86d3215af31e86421a--><br \/>\n<a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-f31f815c84daa62e4a30cee0da94e9c4\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default  \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"31\">\n<p>&#8220;I saw him do it in Montreal,&#8221; Williams said of Blake&#8217;s joke-making talent. &#8220;And, he&#8217;s good. And, I hate that. &#8216;Cause you can&#8217;t be good at everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-f31f815c84daa62e4a30cee0da94e9c4--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-1466cd3cd000250dea86c5b67d09197a\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default  \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"28\">\n<p>Williams said Blake&#8217;s got a ton of great material to work with too &#8230; noting that as a former NBAer &#8212; and a Kardashian ex &#8212; he&#8217;s got a lot of ammo to get audiences giggling.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-1466cd3cd000250dea86c5b67d09197a--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-d7d7d0e67d6a850eeb42af9eba5519c9\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-youtube-video-block canvas-youtube-video-block-permalink canvas-youtube-video-block--default  \">\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-d7d7d0e67d6a850eeb42af9eba5519c9--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-6a7f666199ff7244ce39937ddfedb67a\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default  \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"27.5108225108\">\n<p>Blake, of course, has made it no secret he&#8217;s at least somewhat interested in pursuing laughs &#8230; he&#8217;s done standup routines several times over the years &#8212; and even once participated in a hilarious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2018\/08\/01\/blake-griffin-roast-battle-jeff-ross-clippers\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>2018 Roast Battle<\/strong><\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/jeff-ross\/\"><strong>Jeff Ross<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-6a7f666199ff7244ce39937ddfedb67a--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-cda2ce8b78ff07b12e2e67159a474abc\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default  canvas-block-is-last \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"33\">\n<p>Griffin, though, obviously doesn&#8217;t need a new career if he doesn&#8217;t want one &#8212; he made over $250 MILLION in NBA contracts alone &#8212; and if he ultimately chose to end up in a rocking chair on a porch somewhere, check out the clip, seems Williams would certainly be just fine with that!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-cda2ce8b78ff07b12e2e67159a474abc--><\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2024\/04\/18\/blake-griffin-has-big-future-in-comedy-after-nba-retirement-brad-williams-says\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play video content TMZSports.com Comedy star Brad Williams says Blake Griffin could easily go from setting screens to setting up jokes now that he&#8217;s retired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1075,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}