Cliff Robinson is most known for being a good solid player throughout his playing days with the Blazers, Nets, Pistons & more. He is also remembered for his signature headband but now that his career is long over, he wants to be remembered for something else and that something else is weed!
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The Detroit Free Press tells us Robinson, 49, is now a marijuana advocate and will be a speaker at the Cannabis Collaborative Conference in early February in Portland, Oregon. He also plans to begin a grow operation in Oregon later this year and is calling himself “Uncle Spliffy” — a play on his ‘Uncle Cliffy’ nickname.
“It’s an opportunity for me to get out there and tell people a little bit about myself outside of basketball,” Robinson said, per Giegerich. “People in Oregon know me as a basketball player, but I want to distill the stigma around cannabis, the misperception that athletes and cannabis are incompatible.”
According to the Associated Press (via ESPN.com), the NBA suspended Robinson multiple times for violating the league’s drug policy.
“I think I’ve always been an advocate for cannabis,” Robinson told KOIN 6 News in Portland. “(It’s) calming, calm my stomach, calm my nerves a little bit. So from that standpoint, I see a lot of positives.”
