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Name | Blake Griffin |
Team | Los Angeles Clippers |
Number | 32 |
Sport | Basketball |
Position | Power forward |
Class | Rookie |
Career start | 2009 |
Height | 6 ft 10 inch |
Weight | 113.954 kg (251 lb) |
Nationality | American |
College | Oklahoma (Fr./So.) |
Draft | 1st overall |
Draft team | Los Angeles Clippers |
Draft year | 2009 |
Salary | 4,983,480 |
Personal | information |
Date of birth | March 16, 1989(age 21) |
Birth place | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
Highschool | Oklahoma Christian School, Edmond, Oklahoma |
Awards | McDonald's All-American (2007) Naismith Award (2009)
John Wooden Award (2009) AP Big 12 Player of the Year |
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Blake Austin Griffin (born March 16, 1989) is an American basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association. Griffin was selected first overall in the 2009 NBA Draft.
Blake Griffin played college basketball for the Oklahoma Sooners. He was named the Associated Press, the John Wooden Award, the Naismith Award and the Sporting News player of the year for the 2008-2009 college basketball season.
When combined with Sam Bradford's Heisman Trophy, Oklahoma became the second school to have a top winner in both basketball and football in the same year (Gary Beban won the Heisman Trophy and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar won the USBWA "Player of the Year" award in 1968 for UCLA).
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Evans helps Kings beat Clippers, snap 8-game skid - The Associated Press
The Associated Press---...- has been a bright spot all season for the Kings, the Clippers have dealt with not having top draft pick -Blake Griffin- for even one game. ... Date : Fri, 09 Apr 2010 05:14:44 GMT+00:00
Clippers need re-branding and me as leader says Baron Davis - Examiner.com
Examiner.com--Number one draft pick forward -Blake Griffin- went down in the pre-season with a knee injury that effectively ended his rookie season. ... Date : Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:43:35 GMT+00:00
Sources: OU's Warren leaving for pros - FOXSports.com
FOXSports.com--Warren was expected to have a huge season after the loss of National Player of Year -Blake Griffin-, but he was unable to shoulder leadership duties and the ... Date : Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:10:37 GMT+00:00
Kansas' Xavier Henry Tearfully Declares for NBA Draft - FanHouse
FanHouse--10 to the Los Angeles Clippers, a spot which would land him with friend and fellow Oklahoma City native -Blake Griffin-. "It's all about putting in the work," ... Date : Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:50:24 GMT+00:00
Sources: OU's Warren leaving for pros - FOXNews
FOXNews--Warren was expected to have a huge season after the loss of National Player of Year -Blake Griffin-, but he was unable to shoulder leadership duties and the ... Date : Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:52:11 GMT+00:00
blakegriffin: RT @OGOchoCinco: http://twitpic.com/1dpury - The big homie Blake ... - Tweet Soup
Tweet Soup--The given text will be posted to twitter.com. You can use !url, !url-alias, !tinyurl, !title and !user as replacement text. This question is for testing ... Date : Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:48:17 GMT+00:00
Los Angeles Clippers Playoff Preview: What Might Have Been - Bleacher Report
Bleacher Report--Like his team, -Blake Griffin- did nothing to dissapoint. The mocking taunts when the Clippers took him first in the draft were silenced by the favorite to ... Date : Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:35:38 GMT+00:00
Stephen Curry: One that got away? - Washington Post (blog)
Washington Post (blog)--The Wizards' draft board consisted of -Blake Griffin-, Tyreke Evans, Rubio and James Harden. Had the Wizards kept the pick, three of those players would've ... Date : Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:11:18 GMT+00:00
Mike Dunleavy may have to sue Clippers to get his money - ProBasketballTalk (blog)
ProBasketballTalk (blog)--They get -Blake Griffin- back next year. Any time you think, "hey, maybe the Clippers are turning the corner..." To the surprise of absolutely no one who's ... Date : Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:35:30 GMT+00:00
COLUMN: Coale's success should not be overlooked - Oklahoma Daily
Oklahoma Daily---...- National Player of the Year -Blake Griffin-, who left for the NBA and pre-season All-American Willie Warren, who missed half the season due to injury. ... Date : Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:12:40 GMT+00:00
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