height_ft conference color nationality article_title fontcolor position sport height_in birth_date college name
6 northeast # 000000 american joe griffin
 #c 1c2c4 small forward basketball 5 1972 long island joe griffin
joe griffin

joseph `` joe '' griffin -lrb- born -rrb- is a former american standout basketball player for long island university -lrb- liu -rrb- between 1990 -- 91 and 1994 -- 95 .
he was and played the small forward position .
during his career as a blackbird , griffin scored 1,830 points , which is still the most all-time in school history .
he was twice named to the all-northeast conference first team , and as a senior in 1994 -- 95 griffin led the conference in scoring at 25.8 points per game .
griffin was subsequently named the northeast conference men 's basketball player of the year and was the recipient of the coveted haggerty award , which is given annually to the best male collegiate basketball player in the greater new york city area .
in 2010 he was inducted into the long island university athletic hall of fame .
after college , griffin became a licensed real estate agent as well as middle school teacher in the atlanta , georgia greater area .
he earned his master of business administration -lrb- mba -rrb- from the university of phoenix online in 2008 .
as of june 2011 , griffin works as an associate broker for metro brokers .
