In the early morning of March 30, minutes after Minnesota forward Eddie Griffin crashed his 2002 Cadillac Escalade into a parked car outside Santana Foods, a grocery store near the University of Minnesota campus, Griffin persuaded a store patron named Nick Schlossmacher to cancel a 911 call to Minneapolis police.

Griffin apparently didn't realize a Santana Foods employee also had called 911, though it took more than half an hour for a police cruiser to reach the scene.

During the time of the delay, the store's surveillance cameras recorded Griffin, a recovering alcoholic, saying he was drunk. The 6-foot-10 Griffin stood over Jamal Hassuneh, the owner of the damaged 2006 Chevy Suburban, and repeatedly offered to buy him a replacement vehicle in exchange for not involving police.

"Any car you want, except a Bentley," Griffin said at one point. "I'll buy it for you tomorrow. Whatever car you want, man. You can get a Hummer, Navigator, Escalade." Moments later, after again indicating he was impaired, Griffin said, "I can't go to jail."

Griffin didn't. And neither the NBA nor the Timberwolves took action against Griffin, who has twice been jailed before.

Via Philadelphia Inquirer

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