NBA star AJ Griffin 'set to QUIT basketball' after just two seasons in shock move

Houston Rockets subordinate AJ Griffin has moved a measurement person to quitting hoops aft conscionable 2 seasons successful the NBA. 

The Rockets waived the 21-year-old connected Friday, according to The Athletic, speeding up his exit from nonrecreational basketball.

Griffin was drafted No. 16 wide by the Atlanta Hawks successful 2022 and played 2 seasons earlier being traded to the Rockets successful June of this year.

The lad of erstwhile Milwaukee Bucks caput manager Adrian Griffin is yet to play a crippled for his caller team, but helium is present expected to discontinue the athletics entirely.

In his rookie play with the Hawks, the erstwhile first-round prime appeared successful 72 games with 12 starts, averaging 19.5 minutes per game.

However, his relation diminished arsenic helium struggled with an ankle wounded during his 2nd twelvemonth successful the NBA. He appeared successful conscionable 20 games, averaging 8.6 minutes per crippled past season. 

After his accumulation decreased, the Hawks yet decided to determination connected from him this offseason successful precocious June. 

Atlanta traded Griffin to the Rockets for the No. 44 prime successful this year's draught earlier trading that prime to Miami to get rights to guard/forward Nikola Djurisic of Serbia.

Griffin appeared for the Rockets during the NBA's Summer League successful Las Vegas this summertime but the guardant could permission the crippled each unneurotic earlier suiting up successful a regular play crippled for his caller team. 

The quality of his imaginable departure comes little than 3 weeks earlier the commencement of grooming campy with the 2024-25 play slated to statesman connected October 22. 

The Rockets finished the 2023-24 play with a 41-41 record, falling conscionable abbreviated of earning a spot successful the Western Conference play-in tournament. 

His exit would permission the Rockets with little extent astatine tiny guardant with less contention for Cam Whitmore, Jae'Sean Tate, and Tari Eason successful the position. 

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