Tag: blake griffin

  • Blake Griffin Slowly Turning Into More Than Just a Highlights Star

    Blake Griffin wasn’t on the floor for overtime, for Chris Paul taking over once again. But he built the lead that got the Clippers to overtime, in one of the most complete and versatile performances of his career, slowly breaking out of the ‘Just Dunking’ label, meanwhile possibly winning his first postseason series.

  • 10 Best Dunks of the 2011-2012 NBA Season

    Blake Griffin, despite being in a shortened season, pulled off enough impressive dunks and alley oops to fill a top 10 list on his own, but you have to give some other guys, like LeBron James, Josh Smith and Gerald Green their fair share of the posterizing spotlight.

  • Chris Paul & How Far the Clippers Can Follow Him

    Chris Paul is having an MVP type year some people say. There’s no real chance he takes the award from LeBron James or Kevin Durant, but he deserves at least some consideration. His 33 points, 13 assists and 8 steals game for the Los Angeles Clippers against the New Orleans Hornets was just another example of his ability and importance.

  • Are the Clippers Better Than We Thought?

    Chris Paul dashing through the Oklahoma City Thunder defense looked like it’ll end with a smile for the Clippers, and it did. The Thunder are usually great in the clutch, especially on defense, but something about that zone they tried just didn’t work. Maybe they actually feared Paul might dish it to someone else, but he took it all on himself all night.

  • Bryant & Bynum Dominate Clippers – Lakers Despite Blake Griffin Dunk on Pau Gasol

    Kobe Bryant finished with 31 points, Andrew Bynum with 36. The Los Angeles Lakers beat their little sister 113-108 in a game that had most people talking about Blake Griffin destroying Pau Gasol with another one for the his impressive highlight book. With one less of a position to worry about for the Lakers, who on some nights, when things click on both ends of the floor, look like title contenders once again.

  • Chris Paul Doesn’t Enjoy Hornets Hospitality

    Chris Paul thought his visit to New Orleans against the worst team in the Western Conference would go a little easier, a little better. Nothing is easy for the Los Angeles Clippers these days, losing their third straight game on the road and their ninth in March, slipping to the sixth spot in the Western conference after a 97-90 defeat against the Hornets.

  • The Ridiculousness of the LeBron – Perkins Twitter Feud

    America forgot about hating LeBron James for the wrong reasons and went back to Michael Vick. Why? There’s wasn’t anyone evil enough for the past 12 months, so it’s easy going back to the guy who had dogs fighting each other to death, and pretty understandable.

  • LeBron James vs Blake Griffin – Still Can’t Decide Which Was the Better Dunk

    LeBron James OVER John Lucas. Blake Griffin ON Kendrick Perkins. It’s been what, two weeks almost since those two gave us the best dunks of the season and perhaps in a bigger time frame than that, and in the usual human affliction of trying to rank everything, an answer as to what was the better dunk still hasn’t sprung to my mind.

  • Overtime Doesn’t Treat Miami Heat Kindly

    Another West Coast game going to overtime, and the Miami Heat lost again. This time the Los Angeles Clippers, with Chris Paul leading the charge (27 points, 11 assists) as Dwyane Wade lost his second straight game since returning from injury while the entire team struggled with scoring.

  • Top Five Power Forwards in the NBA, Going Into 2011-2012

    Dirk Nowitzki won the NBA Finals MVP award last season, making him a deserving #1 among the elite power forwards of the NBA. He’s joined by LaMarcus Aldridge, Blake Griffin, Zach Randolph and Amar’e Stoudemire as our prediction to be the 5 best power forwards in the 2011-2012 season.