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Before Lob City officially began, this was the Blake Griffin story. When SLAM 147 hit shelves, Chris Paul wasn't feeding him lobs yet. Baron Davis and Randy Foye were the ones throwing him oops instead. Blake dunked on everyone, plain and simple.
Griffin had been the number one overall pick in 2009, then lost his whole rookie season to injury, and the hype only grew louder. At Oklahoma he'd already shown flashes of what the NBA could expect night after night. His very first NBA basket was a dunk, which fed the legend even more.
Big men around the league kept getting posterized, and he made All-Star as a rookie.
The dunks hid the bigger story, though. Griffin was no mere athlete. He could really play. He started and played in every Clippers game that year and finished with 22 points, 12 rebounds and 4 assists on 50 percent shooting. Some people grumbled that giving him ROY wasn't fair because he wasn't a true rookie. Fair or not, those were All-Star numbers from an All-Star entertainer. The cover line of SLAM 147 said it straight. Inside the Clippers and around the NBA, everyone already knew he was the future of the League. We just wrote down what they were saying behind closed doors.
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