AJ Griffin - Basketball player on his sudden retirement from NBA plus Matt shares what he learned at church on Sunday

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🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Today on the podcast, Matt and Jason react to the Chiefs and Eagles once again facing off in Super Bowl LIX, the return of the running game in the NFL (:40), what we learned at church on Sunday (16:40) and then we're joined by AJ Griffin (26:27) to talk about his decision to walk away from the NBA and whether he would ever return to basketball.

GUEST: AJ Griffin is a former NBA basketball player. He played two seasons with the Atlanta Hawks after being selected in the 2022 NBA Draft out of Duke University. In September 2024, he announced he was stepping away from basketball to pursue his relationship with Jesus Christ.

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0:00.0	What's up Sports Spectrum?
0:01.1	It's your host, Matt Forte, here with Jason Romano.
0:03.7	Back again.
0:04.7	And Jason, we got on the podcast today a 2021 McDonald's All-American five-star recruit,
0:11.4	Duke University All-Freshman team back in 2022,
0:15.1	played in the NBA for a couple of seasons.
0:18.8	And now it sounds weird to say, but former NBA player, AJ Griffin, AJ, welcome to
0:23.6	Sports Spectrum.
0:24.3	How you doing?
0:25.1	Yeah, I'm doing great, man.
0:26.3	I appreciate you guys having me.
0:28.1	And, yeah, like you said, man, you know, I just, you know, I played in NBA and I'm, you know,
0:33.0	I'm here to share my story.
0:35.6	And it's a pleasure to just be on you.
0:37.4	So, yeah.
0:38.2	Absolutely.
0:39.2	Absolutely, man.
0:39.7	So, I mean, let's get right to it.
0:41.3	I'm not going to beat around the bush.
0:43.0	It's probably the million dollar question that everybody has asked you.
0:45.9	Or maybe not, they haven't asked you.
0:47.5	But let's start with your decision to retire from the NBA.
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