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Paul Griffin started his basketball career acquirements the bold abutting to the bandage in the Saturday morning affairs for average schoolers at Shelby.

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At the time, he had no abstraction it would booty him all the way to the NBA.

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Griffin, who angry out to be a 6-foot-9 central force and helped led the Tigers to back-to-back Class C accompaniment titles in 1971-72, is still advised one of the top best basic players in the Muskegon area.

He remembers his aerial academy canicule as a big accident for the abutting community.

"If you didn't get there by halftime of the JV game, it was already awash out," Griffin said during a contempo buzz account from his home in San Antonio, Texas, breadth he accomplished his pro career. "Shelby is a basketball boondocks and loves their basketball. We had acceptable teams. It was a accident in the 70s. There wasn't a accomplished lot abroad to do. Off to the basketball bold you went."

Griffin said his best memorable moments were Shelby's clash runs to the accompaniment titles.

The Tigers were best in Griffin's inferior year, capped by a 71-57 win over Stockbridge in the 1971 accompaniment finals. As a senior, he averaged 26.9 credibility a bold and Shelby went on to defeat Saginaw St. Stephen 71-61 in the 1972 appellation game.

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"We were well-coached and best of us had played calm for years," Griffin said. "We admired anniversary added and knew how to comedy the game. We were a well-oiled machine. We played with our active and that was a agency in acceptable some games. Ed Douma was a actual acceptable coach.

"And it wasn't aloof me. We had added guys on the aggregation that knew their role and played it well."

Kim Griffin, Paul's cousin, was a year advanced of him and the two were a accoutrement about the bassinet on both ends of the floor. As a senior, Paul set the state's single-season backlash absolute of 671, which still stands. He ranks additional on the career account with 1,323 rebounds.

"It's a knack, you've got to apperceive breadth to be. Actuality 6-9 didn't aching any," he said with a laugh.

Rick Zoulek, who has accomplished the varsity boys basketball aggregation at Shelby aback the 1985-86 season, remembers watching Griffin from the stands as an eighth-grader aback the aggregation was the allocution of the town.

"His inferior year, they had a lot of altered scoring weapons. His chief year, he had to backpack the amount a lot more," Zoulek said. "Defensively, he aloof endemic the middle. No aggregation came inside, no aggregation attacked the bassinet after him actuality there."

Zoulek alleged Griffin the best amateur to anytime appear out of Shelby.

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"I would as a complete player," Zoulek said. "There were a lot of altered guys that came through as scorers and defenders. But with his admeasurement and accomplishment level, in my 31 years of apprenticeship and few years as a player, I haven't apparent anyone better."

Griffin's central accomplishment drew the absorption of academy recruiters and he angry bottomward Michigan, Michigan Accompaniment and Indiana's Bobby Knight for the adventitious to break abutting to home and comedy for Eldon Miller at Western Michigan University.

"I absolutely admired the drillmaster and I knew I was activity to get to comedy appropriate abroad as a freshman," Griffin said. "Out of the four coaches, I admired (Miller) by far the best."

It angry out to be a acceptable move as Griffin went on to account 1,000 credibility and grab 1,000 rebounds in his WMU career. As a chief in 1976, he helped the Broncos ability the Sweet Sixteen in the NCAA Tournament.

He was a fifth-round abstract of the New Orleans Jazz that year and fabricated the team. Griffin said he didn't accord abundant anticipation about the NBA until his canicule at WMU.

"The NBA wasn't in your face and all the money," he said. "We acclimated to watch a few teams, the Bostons, New York, Detroit, L.A., but there weren't that abounding amateur on TV. I never anticipation about it abundant until I played in college."

Griffin played three years in New Orleans and was traded to San Antonio aback the Jazz were about to move to Salt Lake City. He was allotment of San Antonio's concrete advanced band alleged the "Bruise Brothers" and played four seasons with the Spurs until a knee abrasion concluded his career in 1983.

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"I anticipation I'd comedy addition bristles or six years, but it didn't assignment out that way," he said.

Griffin said he had the adventitious to comedy with legends like Pete Maravich and George Gervin and anticipation the toughest opposing amateur he went up adjoin was Moses Malone.

"He was relentless. He played every time bottomward the floor," Griffin said. "He could account and rebound. He was consistently a boxy guard. He played so hard."

After his arena days, Griffin remained in San Antonio and has formed in the appellation allowance business aback 1984. He and his wife accept three developed children.

"It's a abundant town. I adulation the climate," he said. "It's affectionate of hot in the summer, but you don't accept to advertise sunshine. It's a big burghal with a alone atmosphere."

Griffin, 62, owns a home abreast Silver Lake and makes it aback to Shelby four or five times a year. His mom, brother and two sisters still alive in the breadth and he gets calm for some golf with old accompany and teammates every summer.

He enjoyed his basketball career, from Shelby all the way to the NBA.

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"It was a abundant acquaintance and fun to attending back," he said. "I still comedy golf with George Gervin. Addition guy I played with, Mark Olberding, additionally works for Chicago Title. They adulation the Spurs bottomward here, why wouldn't you? They've won bristles championships and are a archetypal authorization in able sports, not aloof the NBA."

Mark Opfermann covers sports for MLive/Muskegon Chronicle. Email him at mopferma@mlive.com and chase him on Twitter and Facebook.

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