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Lob City hadn't officially started yet. When SLAM 147 dropped, Blake Griffin wasn't catching passes from Chris Paul. Baron Davis and Randy Foye were the teammates lofting him oops. And man, Blake dunked on everybody.
After going number one overall in 2009 and then sitting out his entire rookie year with an injury, the hype around Griffin had grown beyond control. He'd been an athletic force at Oklahoma, already teasing what the NBA might witness every night. That his first NBA basket came on a dunk only deepened the mystique.
Nearly every big man in the league got posterized on his way to an All-Star nod as a rookie.
Those dunks buried the real story. Griffin wasn't just a freak athlete, he was a genuine ballplayer. Playing and starting in all 82 Clippers games that season, he averaged 22 points, 12 rebounds and 4 assists on 50 percent shooting. Plenty of people were annoyed when his name went on the ROY award, arguing he wasn't truly a rookie. Call it what you want, those were All-Star averages from an All-Star entertainer. SLAM 147 stated facts on the cover. Clippers staff and league insiders all knew he was the future of the League. We simply recorded what they were saying behind closed doors.
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