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When SLAM 147 landed, Lob City hadn't officially begun. Griffin's pick-and-roll partner was still a year away — Baron Davis and Randy Foye handled the ball instead, and the oops kept coming. Blake dunked on basically everybody.
He'd been the number one overall pick in 2009 and then lost his entire rookie season to injury, a combo that sent the hype through the roof. At Oklahoma he'd already shown glimpses of the athletic force the NBA would meet. His very first basket as a pro? A dunk. Of course it was.
Poster after poster followed, and he was named an All-Star as a rookie.
But the dunks buried the lede. Griffin was more than a freak athlete — he was a real ballplayer. He played and started every single Clippers game that season, finishing with averages of 22 points, 12 rebounds and 4 assists on 50 percent shooting. Some people were annoyed his name landed on the ROY award, insisting he wasn't truly a rookie. All-Star averages from an All-Star entertainer, though. The cover line of SLAM 147 was facts; everyone around the Clippers and the NBA knew he was the future. We just wrote down what they were saying behind closed doors.
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