Griffiths gave King the biggest styling since MD on Trev.
King, quoted in various newspapers this week, suggested Celtic should be further ahead given that Rangers had been "in the wilderness for four years".
However, Griffiths said: "If you said to someone at the start of last season that Rangers would be 30-odd points behind Celtic at the end of the season, you'd be raging.
"What was the gulf? 30-odd points. How does he expect that to be bigger? They were touting at the start of last season that they were going to win the league and this and that.
"Joey Barton was coming up and saying he was going to be the best player in Scotland -
he lasted a few months.
"In the first game,
they got hammered 5-1 and they
got hammered 5-1 at the end of the season.
"So, the gulf couldn't be any bigger. This season, they'll be trying to bridge the gap.
"We just want to concentrate on our job and our job is to defend our title. And if we do that, we'll have no qualms about it.
"Ultimately it's about what we do and if we are at our best nobody in Scotland can live with us."
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