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Blake Griffin #32 – Forward | Los Angeles Clippers Ferocious. Beastly. Heralded as one the NBA’s most exciting players, Blake Griffin has transcended the game of basketball and has accomplished more in his rookie season than what an average NBA player achieves in a career.

No matter how easy he makes it look, Blake’s ability did not just magically come together overnight. Blake’s parents, Tommy and Gail, instilled the value of hard work in their sons Blake and older brother Taylor from childhood when they were home-schooled as youngsters until high school. Tommy started with Blake as a toddler, working out with him and teaching him how to shoot baskets in the gym. After Taylor moved on to play basketball for Oklahoma, Blake gained invaluable experience playing pickup games against his brother’s college teammates.

The result? State championships in his junior and senior year making Blake a state champion in all four years of high school. Following his junior season, Blake declined scholarships to national powerhouses such as Duke and Kansas, opting instead to join his brother at Oklahoma University. In his second year at Oklahoma, Blake posted one of the most dominant seasons by a collegiate player and became a household name for his tremendous player and ferocious slam dunks.

While leading Oklahoma to the Sweet 16, Griffin was rewarded for his outstanding play by being chosen as the Naismith, Wooden and Associated Press Player of the Year en route to being a consensus selection as National Player of the Year. Following a run where Blake lead the Oklahoma Sooners to the Sweet 16, Blake announced that he would enter the 2009 NBA Draft. Known as the “Blake Griffin Sweepstakes”, the Los Angeles Clippers, equipped with only a 17.7% chance of winning the rights of the number one overall pick in the 2009 NBA Draft were revealed as the team that would have the rights to the first overall draft pick.

Blake Griffin was so highly touted, where in a system where team’s work out potential draft picks for several weeks before making their choice on who to select, the Clippers were so confident that they would select Blake Griffin that Clippers team president Andy Roeser who was representing the team at the time of the drawing actually wore a pattern designed as the Clippers’ home jersey. Inside his sport-jacket was the number 1 emblazoned on one side, and the number 23, Blake’s college jersey number sewn on the other. On June 25, 2009, Blake Griffin was selected as the number one overall pick by the Los Angeles Clippers. Blake began the 2009 NBA pre-season with a bang, racking up big numbers and even bigger highlight dunks.

 In the final pre-season game before his long awaited NBA debut, disaster struck as Blake suffered a knee injury that would cost him his rookie season. Blake spent the year with the team in his street clothes and his Dora the Explorer book bag. Blake, however, was not to be denied. After a year of grueling rehab and intense training, Blake finally launched his rookie campaign on October 27th, 2010 against the Portland Trail Blazers with a 20 point, 14 rebound performance. Every month since then has been an explosive leap after the next. Stats are one thing, praise from your peers is another. Blake’s impact on the each game can be summed up by Utah Jazz forward Al Jefferson, who admitted after playing against Blake for the first time in his career that he was “happy” that Blake fouled out of the game, going as far to say that he had “never been so excited about anything” in his entire life.

While that was going on, Blake was amidst a double-double streak that no rookie had accomplished in over 40 years. But what is most telling of Blake’s historic rookie campaign is the praise he receives on a consistent basis from some of the NBA’s greatest players. After being called “phenomenal” by Dwyanne Wade and an all-star by Kobe Bryant, Griffin immediately proved their prognostications by posting a career high 47 points against the Indiana Pacers on Martin Luther King Day. As a result of his first half dominance, Blake was voted by coaches around the NBA as a reserve to the 2011 NBA All-Star game, making him the first player since Tim Duncan to be selected as an All-Star reserve in his rookie season.

Being the first rookie to play in an all-star game in a decade wasn’t the only feat Blake accomplished All-Star weekend. In addition to starring in the mid-season classic, Blake also participated in both the NBA Rookie Challenge and the Sprite Slam Dunk Contest, making him the first player in NBA history to participate in a different event each of the three nights of all-star weekend. And Blake didn’t just show up to these events, he dominated. Blake increased his legacy as one of the biggest and brightest stars in the NBA by winning the Sprite Slam Dunk Contest and treating the world to some of the most memorable moments in All-Star weekend history.

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