Ballmer: Trading Griffin a difficult decision. We're building for what I think is the modern NBA

Clippers owner Steve Ballmer said that trading Blake Griffin was “a very difficult decision”.

Per ESPN, "[Griffin] is obviously a superstar player," said Ballmer. "But if you look at what happened injury-wise, if you look at the kind of chemistry we were getting on our team, the thing you can see at the high level with the numbers when I started -- one guy got all the assists, one guy got all the points and one guy got all the rebounds. It's not all quite that way, but I think in the modern NBA, we were seeing it more and more -- there's a greater distribution of responsibility."

"We have to add some pieces obviously, but I think we're building for what I think is the modern NBA, and that trend has only accelerated since we signed Blake last summer."