On January 29, 2018, Adrian Wojnarowski reported that the Clippers had agreed to trade Blake Griffin to the Pistons for Tobias Harris, Avery Bradley, Boban Marjanovic and two draft picks, months after Griffin signed a five-year near-max deal in Los Angeles. Reporting has since filled in the 2017 free-agency courtship: Clippers staff wore 'Pioneer' shirts featuring Griffin among historical figures at his meeting, and Gillian Zucker texted Griffin's agent before tip-off asking whether he could shake Steve Ballmer's hand. Griffin later confronted Lawrence Frank in his office and was told he would be the first to know; he learned of the trade from Wojnarowski's tweet. The discussion centers on the staging of that pitch against the speed of the reversal.