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Blake Posterized a Car
Published: 2/20/2011 1:27 PM
Last Modified: 2/20/2011 1:27 PM

Blake Griffin “posterized” a car while a gospel choir sang on Saturday night.
Appropriate. Griffin has already “posterized” just about every human being in the NBA.
Griffin, the former star at Oklahoma from Edmond, won the NBA slam dunk contest on Saturday night in Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Clippers rookie was expected to win the dunk contest. He has become one of the most exciting basketball players on earth by throwing down dunks on just about everyone in his rookie season.
But, Griffin brought out all of the theatrics to win the slam dunk contest.
It brought down the house.
He took a pass from a teammate who was standing up through the sun roof of the car, a KIA.
Griffin flew over the car with ease and completed the dunk.
It was the perfect combination of theater and athletic skill. Just like we want in our dunk contests.



Reader Comments 2 Total
TulsaTrav (last year)
It was my Idea for him to do this dunk...I want the credit :)
jjones6993 (last year)
This type of dunk has been done before where the dunker actually jumped over the tallest part of the car. A simple youtube search will show a few.
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