Blake Griffin already greatest Clipper
July 22, 2009 by James Edwards
Filed under NBA Basketball
NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Your intrepid writer is a huge Detroit Lions fan and always has been. So if you want to understand goofy general manager moves, bad owners, terrible seasons, and the lack of good players, you might call me an expert.
The Clippers are bad and have been bad for as long as Donald Sterling has been the owner for over 20 years. Wonder if they are thinking of hiring former Detroit Lion GM Matt Millen. He could ramp up there terribleness.
Then along came the NBA draft of 2009 and the Clippers did a most un-Clipper like thing. They drafted a guy that can not only play, but cares about the game. Huh?
Blake Griffin will not lay down on the job
If Blake Griffin stays with the Clippers they could actually be a playoff contender. Let us not jump to NBA title contender while Sterling is still the owner.
When the Clippers won the draft lottery and selected Griffin with the top pick, I didn’t think this one would turn out any different. It would be just the Clippers’ luck to go first in what’s viewed as a weak draft. They never get this chance when there’s a Shaq or a LeBron to be had.
If Blake Griffin can rise into stardom in L.A., it could be a healthy antidote to the Kandi Man.
Then I saw Griffin flying around the court in a summer league game against Memphis, soaring over everyone in the paint to throw down a tip dunk, running down an opponent to pin his shot against the backboard. The fact that it came while the No. 2 pick, Memphis’ Hasheem Thabeet, was turning in an Olowokandian performance and disappearing for stretches made it even more jarring. For once, the Clippers wound up with the player you’d want if you had the choice. This wasn’t Lancaster Gordon instead of John Stockton, or Yaroslav Korolev instead of Danny Granger.
One wonders how Sterling can screw this up and if Sterling will buy the Detroit Lions from the Ford family?
Anyway, just the fact that fans are thinking Blake Griffin can deliver the playoffs to Clipper land makes him the greatest Clipper ever!
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greatest Clipper ever? Are you kidding. Can the guy get a season under his belt first.
no, your intrepid author has already declared him the greatest!
in order to be the greatest anything, he at least needs a regular season game under his belt. Come on!
hehehe My rules. He is the greatest!