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The Detroit Pistons traded for Blake Griffin, and everyone's going nuts

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Detroit Pistons complete blockbuster deal to acquire All-Star forward Blake Griffin, and it has Pistons fans everywhere in a frenzy
This is what we in the media business like to call a « #WojBomb. »
You see, ESPN basketball insider Adrian Wojnarowski has this tendency of dropping bombshell NBA news on Twitter, seemingly out of the blue, just enough to catch everyone by surprise and scream « WHAT?! »
That’s what happened tonight when Wojnarowski tweeted that the Detroit Pistons and Los Angeles Clippers were in « serious » talks to send All-Star forward Blake Griffin to Detroit – then again when it became a done deal. That’s a #WojBomb.
The trade was later confirmed by the Free Press.
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And as you can imagine, the reaction was priceless.
A sampling of how Pistons fans, NBA enthusiasts and other prominent personalities reacted to the big news:
In all, do you think the Pistons won the trade? Or did the Clippers? Vote in our Twitter poll now.

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