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Eddie Griffin: Life
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As the blues tune laments, some folks are born under a bad sign, and Eddie Griffin was one. Despite all the stupid, wrong-headed things Griffin did to sabotage his basketball career, not to mention his life, over and over again, I never heard one of his teammates or basketball bosses speak of him in anger, only sadness and concern, or, when he was really going well a couple years back, guarded optimism and a sense of quiet but fierce protection. In the locker room, Griffin spoke in a shy monotone, almost never smiled nor grimaced, even when KG was singing his praises from the adjoining locker.
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"He certainly got on the wrong path in life," said Dave Falcione, the athletic director at Griffin's Philadelphia alma mater, Roman Catholic High School. "How that happens, who knows? Eddie had the ability, he had everything going for him.
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"Eddie went through some tough times in life, and unfortunately many of those times were made public," Wolves forward Mark Madsen said. "But those incidents are dwarfed by the caring person he was. It's a shock to all of us that he's not with us now."
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