Born on Marh 16, 1989, Blake Griffin is the most intense and talented 21 year old I’ve seen in a long time. Griffin was November’s Rookie of the month with the Clippers, the team that drafted him first overall in last year’s draft. Griffin played his college ball in Oklahoma for the Sooners winning many accolades during his two years there. The most impressive award he won was the Naismith Award for outstanding collegiate basketball player in 2009. At 6’10” and 250 lbs Griffin is a classic power forward. He has explosiveness that is unheard of when he has the ball in the paint. He can handle the ball and distribute well for a big man. He can run the floor, set up in the post and jam the ball home; and he can do this consistently for 48 minutes. He is very comparable to LeBron James. Their styles of power and intensity at the net is unrivalled. Both players had their high school careers scrutinized and inspected, the only difference was that Griffin went on to play Collegiate ball and Bron-Bron went straigt to the NBA, winning Rookie of the Year. The race for this year’s Rookie of the Year seems to be between Griffin and John Wall of the Washington Wizards who was drafted first overall this year. Wall is a point guard on a mediocre team but Griffin is the big dominant figure on a terrible team. It is because of Blake Griffin that fans are paying attention to the team from Los Angeles that aren’t named Lakers. Due to injury Griffin missed all of his debut season with the Clippers, but is now recovered and dominating the boards and the stat sheet. He is averaging a 20 point 10 reboun d perfrmance. His only drawback seems to be at the line, where he is Shaquille O’Neal-esque. After the jump is a highlight reel of Blake Griffin as prepared by the NBA. (watch in HD for full effect of this beast at work)
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