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data-file-width="736" data-file-height="946" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Griffin with Wake Forest in 1977</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #DCDCDC !important; color: #000000 !important; border: 2.5px solid #DCDCDC !important;">Personal information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1956-06-18</span>) </span>June 18, 1956<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 68)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Fairmont,_North_Carolina" title="Fairmont, North Carolina">Fairmont, North Carolina</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">Listed height</th><td class="infobox-data">6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">Listed weight</th><td class="infobox-data">215 lb (98 kg)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #DCDCDC !important; color: #000000 !important; border: 2.5px solid #DCDCDC !important;">Career information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">High school</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">Fairmont (Fairmont, North Carolina)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">College</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"><a href="/wiki/Wake_Forest_Demon_Deacons_men%27s_basketball" title="Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball">Wake Forest</a> (1974–1978)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/NBA_draft" title="NBA draft">NBA draft</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/1978_NBA_draft" title="1978 NBA draft">1978</a>: 1st round, 17th overall pick</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Selected by the <a href="/wiki/Denver_Nuggets" title="Denver Nuggets">Denver Nuggets</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">Playing career</th><td class="infobox-data">1978–1993</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">Position</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Power_forward_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Power forward (basketball)">Power forward</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #DCDCDC !important; color: #000000 !important; border: 2.5px solid #DCDCDC !important;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546">Career highlights and awards</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left;"> <ul><li>2× Consensus second-team <a href="/wiki/NCAA_Men%27s_Basketball_All-Americans" title="NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans">All-American</a> (<a href="/wiki/1977_NCAA_Men%27s_Basketball_All-Americans" title="1977 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans">1977</a>, <a href="/wiki/1978_NCAA_Men%27s_Basketball_All-Americans" title="1978 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans">1978</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Coast_Conference_Men%27s_Basketball_Player_of_the_Year" title="Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year">ACC Player of the Year</a> (1977)</li> <li>2× First-team <a href="/wiki/List_of_All-Atlantic_Coast_Conference_men%27s_basketball_teams" title="List of All-Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball teams">All-ACC</a> (1977, 1978)</li> <li>Second-team All-ACC (1976)</li> <li>No. 32 <a href="/wiki/Wake_Forest_Demon_Deacons_men%27s_basketball#Retired_numbers" title="Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball">retired by Wake Forest Demon Deacons</a></li></ul> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/griffro01.html">Stats</a> at <a 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Carolina</a>) is a retired American professional basketball player. The 6'7" <a href="/wiki/Power_forward_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Power forward (basketball)">power forward</a> spent four seasons playing at <a href="/wiki/Wake_Forest_University" title="Wake Forest University">Wake Forest University</a>, playing for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. He was the 1977 <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Coast_Conference_Men%27s_Basketball_Player_of_the_Year" title="Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year">ACC Player of the year</a>. He was selected in the first round (17th pick overall) of the <a href="/wiki/1978_NBA_draft" title="1978 NBA draft">1978 NBA draft</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Denver_Nuggets" title="Denver Nuggets">Denver Nuggets</a>. He played 13 years in <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a> and in 1997 he became an Italian citizen.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Forl%C3%AC" title="Forlì">Forlì</a> supporters called him "Sindaco", the Italian word for Mayor.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rod_Griffin_(basketball)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media 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class="nowrap">1955: <a href="/wiki/Dickie_Hemric" title="Dickie Hemric">Hemric</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1956: <a href="/wiki/Ronnie_Shavlik" title="Ronnie Shavlik">Shavlik</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1957: <a href="/wiki/Lennie_Rosenbluth" title="Lennie Rosenbluth">Rosenbluth</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1958: <a href="/wiki/Pete_Brennan" title="Pete Brennan">Brennan</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1959: <a href="/wiki/Lou_Pucillo" title="Lou Pucillo">Pucillo</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1960: <a href="/wiki/Lee_Shaffer" title="Lee Shaffer">Shaffer</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1961: <a href="/wiki/Len_Chappell" title="Len Chappell">Chappell</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1962: <a href="/wiki/Len_Chappell" title="Len Chappell">Chappell</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1963: <a href="/wiki/Art_Heyman" title="Art Heyman">Heyman</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1964: <a 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Davis</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1972: <a href="/wiki/Barry_Parkhill" title="Barry Parkhill">Parkhill</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1973: <a href="/wiki/David_Thompson_(basketball)" title="David Thompson (basketball)">Thompson</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1974: <a href="/wiki/David_Thompson_(basketball)" title="David Thompson (basketball)">Thompson</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1975: <a href="/wiki/David_Thompson_(basketball)" title="David Thompson (basketball)">Thompson</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1976: <a href="/wiki/Mitch_Kupchak" title="Mitch Kupchak">Kupchak</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1977: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Griffin</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1978: <a href="/wiki/Phil_Ford_(basketball)" title="Phil Ford (basketball)">Ford</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1979: <a href="/wiki/Mike_Gminski" title="Mike Gminski">Gminski</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1980: <a href="/wiki/Albert_King_(basketball)" title="Albert King (basketball)">King</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1981: <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Sampson" title="Ralph Sampson">Sampson</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1982: <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Sampson" title="Ralph Sampson">Sampson</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1983: <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Sampson" title="Ralph Sampson">Sampson</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1984: <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jordan" title="Michael Jordan">Jordan</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1985: <a href="/wiki/Len_Bias" title="Len Bias">Bias</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1986: <a href="/wiki/Len_Bias" title="Len Bias">Bias</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1987: <a href="/wiki/Horace_Grant" title="Horace Grant">Grant</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1988: <a href="/wiki/Danny_Ferry" title="Danny Ferry">Ferry</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1989: <a href="/wiki/Danny_Ferry" title="Danny Ferry">Ferry</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1990: <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Scott_(basketball)" title="Dennis Scott (basketball)">Scott</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1991: <a href="/wiki/Rodney_Monroe" title="Rodney Monroe">Monroe</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1992: <a href="/wiki/Christian_Laettner" title="Christian Laettner">Laettner</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1993: <a href="/wiki/Rodney_Rogers" title="Rodney Rogers">Rogers</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1994: <a href="/wiki/Grant_Hill" title="Grant Hill">Hill</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1995: <a href="/wiki/Joe_Smith_(basketball)" title="Joe Smith (basketball)">J. Smith</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1996: <a href="/wiki/Tim_Duncan" title="Tim Duncan">Duncan</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1997: <a href="/wiki/Tim_Duncan" title="Tim Duncan">Duncan</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1998: <a href="/wiki/Antawn_Jamison" title="Antawn Jamison">Jamison</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1999: <a href="/wiki/Elton_Brand" title="Elton Brand">Brand</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2000: <a href="/wiki/Chris_Carrawell" title="Chris Carrawell">Carrawell</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2001: <a href="/wiki/Shane_Battier" title="Shane Battier">Battier</a> & <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Forte" title="Joseph Forte">Forte</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2002: <a href="/wiki/Juan_Dixon" title="Juan Dixon">Dixon</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2003: <a href="/wiki/Josh_Howard" title="Josh Howard">Howard</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2004: <a href="/wiki/Julius_Hodge" title="Julius Hodge">Hodge</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2005: <a href="/wiki/JJ_Redick" title="JJ Redick">Redick</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2006: <a href="/wiki/JJ_Redick" title="JJ Redick">Redick</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2007: <a href="/wiki/Jared_Dudley" title="Jared Dudley">Dudley</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2008: <a href="/wiki/Tyler_Hansbrough" title="Tyler Hansbrough">Hansbrough</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2009: <a href="/wiki/Ty_Lawson" title="Ty Lawson">Lawson</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2010: <a href="/wiki/Greivis_V%C3%A1squez" title="Greivis Vásquez">Vásquez</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2011: <a href="/wiki/Nolan_Smith" title="Nolan Smith">N. Smith</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2012: <a href="/wiki/Tyler_Zeller" title="Tyler Zeller">Zeller</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2013: <a href="/wiki/Erick_Green" title="Erick Green">Green</a> & <a href="/wiki/Shane_Larkin" title="Shane Larkin">Larkin</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2014: <a href="/wiki/T._J._Warren" title="T. J. Warren">Warren</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2015: <a href="/wiki/Jahlil_Okafor" title="Jahlil Okafor">Okafor</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2016: <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Brogdon" title="Malcolm Brogdon">Brogdon</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2017: <a href="/wiki/Justin_Jackson_(basketball,_born_1995)" title="Justin Jackson (basketball, born 1995)">Jackson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2018: <a href="/wiki/Marvin_Bagley_III" title="Marvin Bagley III">Bagley</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2019: <a href="/wiki/Zion_Williamson" title="Zion Williamson">Williamson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2020: <a href="/wiki/Tre_Jones" title="Tre Jones">Jones</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2021: <a href="/wiki/Moses_Wright" title="Moses Wright">Wright</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2022: <a href="/wiki/Alondes_Williams" title="Alondes Williams">Williams</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2023: <a href="/wiki/Isaiah_Wong" title="Isaiah Wong">Wong</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2024: <a href="/wiki/R._J._Davis" title="R. 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