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Adrian Darnell Griffin Sr. (born July 4, 1974) is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played in the NBA as a shooting guard and small forward from 1999 to 2008. Griffin grew up in Wichita, Kansas and played collegiately at Seton Hall University.

Adrian Griffin

Griffin in 2007
Toronto Raptors
Position	Assistant coach
League	NBA
Personal information
Born	(1974-07-04) July 4, 1974 (age 48) Wichita, Kansas
Nationality	American
Listed height	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Listed weight	217 lb (98 kg)
Career information
High school	Wichita East (Wichita, Kansas)
College	Seton Hall (1992–1996)
NBA draft	1996 / Undrafted
Playing career	1996–2008
Position	Small forward / Shooting guard
Number	44, 7
Coaching career	2008–present
Career history
As player:
1996	Long Island Surf
1996–1998	Connecticut Pride
1998	Atlantic City Seagulls
1998	Roseto
1998–1999	Connecticut Pride
1999	Atlantic City Seagulls
1999–2001	Boston Celtics
2001–2003	Dallas Mavericks
2003–2004	Houston Rockets
2004–2005	Chicago Bulls
2005–2006	Dallas Mavericks
2006–2008	Chicago Bulls
2008	Seattle SuperSonics
As coach:
2008–2010	Milwaukee Bucks (assistant)
2010–2015	Chicago Bulls (assistant)
2015–2016	Orlando Magic (assistant)
2016–2018	Oklahoma City Thunder (assistant)
2018–present	Toronto Raptors (assistant)
Career highlights and awards
As player: CBA champion (1999) CBA Finals MVP (1999) CBA Most Valuable Player (1999) 2× All-CBA First Team (1998, 1999) 2× CBA All-Defensive Team (1998, 1999) CBA All-Rookie First Team (1997) USBL Player of the Year (1999) 2× USBL Playoffs MVP (1998, 1999) Second-team All-Big East (1996) Third-team All-Big East (1995) Haggerty Award winner (1996) As assistant coach: NBA champion (2019)
Career NBA statistics
Points	1,919 (4.0 ppg)
Rebounds	1,512 (3.2 rpg)
Assists	653 (1.4 apg)
Stats  at NBA.com
Stats  at Basketball-Reference.com
Medals Men’s basketball Representing  United States FIBA Americas Championship 1997 Montevideo Team competition

Controversy

In August 2020, Griffin was publicly accused of domestic abuse by his former wife, Audrey Sterling.[1] The Raptors took no action and conducted no investigation in regards to said allegations.[2] Griffin started in August 2021 and ultimately abandoned a libel suit again Sterling in response. [3]

College career

Griffin attended Seton Hall University and was a three-year starter. As a senior, he averaged 16.2 points, 8.3 rebounds, and 3.1 assists per game, and won All-Big East second team honors. In 2010, Griffin was inducted into the Seton Hall Athletics Hall of Fame.[4]

Professional career

Griffin was not selected in the 1996 NBA draft. He spent the first three years of his career in the American minor leagues and in Italy (playing 8 games for Cordivari Roseto from July to October 1998). Griffin was selected to the All-Rookie First Team in 1997 while playing for the Connecticut Pride of the Continental Basketball Association.[5] He was selected to the All-CBA First Team and All-Defensive Team with the Pride in 1998.[5] Griffin led the Pride to the CBA championship in the 1998–99 season as he was named the Finals Most Valuable Player.[5] He was also selected as the CBA Most Valuable Player and earned All-CBA First Team and All-Defensive Team honors.[5]

Griffin began his National Basketball Association (NBA) career in 1999–2000 with the Boston Celtics. As a rookie, his averages were 7 points, 5.2 rebounds and 1.61 steals per game.

Over six seasons, he played for the Boston Celtics, Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets and Chicago Bulls, averaging 4.4 points, 3.3 rebounds and one steal per game. A career highlight was becoming a starter for the Dallas Mavericks in the 2006 NBA Finals.

After one season with the Mavericks, Griffin signed a three-year deal with the Chicago Bulls on July 17, 2006.[6]

On February 21, 2008, Griffin was traded to the Seattle SuperSonics in an 11-player deal that involved players from the Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers, and the SuperSonics.

On August 13, 2008, Griffin was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks in a three-team, six-player deal involving the Bucks, the Cleveland Cavaliers, and the Oklahoma City Thunder that also sent Milwaukee's Mo Williams to Cleveland, Cleveland's Joe Smith and Milwaukee's Desmond Mason to Oklahoma City, and Cleveland's Damon Jones and Oklahoma City's Luke Ridnour to Milwaukee.[7]

Coaching career

Shortly after his playing career ended, he was hired by Milwaukee Bucks head coach Scott Skiles as an assistant, where he would work for the next two seasons.

On September 9, 2010, he became an assistant coach for the Chicago Bulls under Tom Thibodeau, where he coached for five years.[8]

Along with working in the NBA, in 2014, Griffin accepted the offer to work with the USA coaching staff that helped win the Gold Medal in the 2014 FIBA World Cup. This team featured many NBA stars including: Stephen Curry, James Harden, and Kyrie Irving.

On June 26, 2015, he was hired by the Orlando Magic to be their top assistant coach.[9]

On June 9, 2016, Adrian Griffin was hired by the Oklahoma City Thunder to be their lead assistant coach under head coach Billy Donovan.[10]

On June 25, 2018, Adrian Griffin was hired by the Toronto Raptors to be the lead assistant coach under first-year head coach Nick Nurse.[11] Griffin was an instrumental piece of the Raptors 2019 championship run, where the Toronto defeated the Golden State Warriors in 6 games of the 2019 NBA Finals, yielding Griffin his first championship ring.

Personal life

Griffin has completed his bachelor's and master's degrees from Seton Hall and is working on his doctorate in leadership studies.[12] Griffin's son Adrian Jr. is a five-star recruit in the class of 2021 and was drafted 16th overall to the Atlanta Hawks in 2022. Griffin’s other son, Alan, played his first two college seasons at Illinois before transferring to Syracuse to continue his collegiate career. His daughter, Aubrey, plays for UConn.

NBA career statistics

Legend

GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game
FG%	Field goal percentage	3P%	3-point field goal percentage	FT%	Free throw percentage
RPG	Rebounds per game	APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game
BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game	Bold	Career high

Regular season

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1999–00	Boston	72	47	26.8	.424	.281	.753	5.2	2.5	1.6	.2	6.7
2000–01	Boston	44	0	8.6	.340	.346	.750	2.0	.6	.4	.1	2.1
2001–02	Dallas	58	34	23.8	.499	.296	.837	3.9	1.8	1.3	.2	7.2
2002–03	Dallas	74	48	18.6	.433	.250	.844	3.6	1.4	1.0	.1	4.4
2003–04	Houston	19	1	7.0	.278	.500	.000	1.0	.5	.4	.1	.6
2004–05	Chicago	69	1	9.7	.360	.222	.750	2.1	.8	.6	.1	2.2
2005–06	Dallas	52	45	23.9	.480	.000	.774	4.4	1.7	1.0	.2	4.6
2006–07	Chicago	54	1	10.8	.473	.000	.789	2.0	1.1	.6	.1	2.5
2007–08	Chicago	22	2	10.1	.400	.000	.429	1.7	1.0	.6	.1	2.3
2007–08	Seattle	13	0	6.5	.375	.000	1.000	1.7	.4	.4	.1	1.1
Career		477	179	16.8	.438	.278	.763	3.2	1.4	.9	.1	4.0

Playoffs

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2002	Dallas	4	1	14.3	.588	.000	.000	2.3	1.0	.5	.2	5.0
2003	Dallas	15	2	8.7	.415	.333	1.000	2.9	.5	.3	.0	2.5
2005	Chicago	5	0	17.2	.517	.000	.800	4.0	1.8	1.0	.0	6.8
2006	Dallas	20	8	17.5	.542	.000	.875	3.6	1.2	.8	.1	3.6
2007	Chicago	4	0	2.3	.000	.000	.000	.3	.0	.2	.0	.0
Career		48	11	13.2	.487	.200	.765	3.0	.9	.6	.1	3.4

References

External links

• Career statistics and player information from NBA.com and Basketball-Reference.com

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Adrian Darnell Griffin (Wichita, Kansas, 4 de julio de 1974) es un exjugador norteamericano de baloncesto que jugó 9 temporadas en la NBA y que actualmente forma parte de la plantilla de entrenadores de Toronto Raptors. Con 1,96 metros de estatura, jugaba en la posición de alero.

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