With all due apologies to last season’s NBA slam Dunk Champion Terrence Ross of the Toronto Raptors, LA Clippers forward Blake Griffin is hands down the Association’s most feared dunk artist.
Ever since he won the 2011 Slam Dunk crown, helped in part by dunking clear over a Kia, Griffin has been posterizing opponents at a record rate, like most memorably his “Superman” dunk over then Denver Nugget 7 footer Timofey Mozgov.
He has also embarrassed OKC Thunder big man Kendrick Perkins, and has gone on to dunk over and on some of the league’s biggest superstars like absolutely destroying the Lakers’ Pau Gasol not once but twice in one game.
Earlier this season, he put on a show against the Golden State Warriors, finishing off 3 consecutive alley-oops, showing that “Lob City” is once again in full effect this season.
To sum things up, despite all of those corny Griffin Force Kia commercials, Griffin is the one player that most defenders wouldn’t even dare to try and block on a dunk attempt, because quite simply he is the king of posterization.
Someone apparently forgot to tell that to Boston Celtics forward Kris Humphries, who decided to serve as a speed bump on Griffin’s path to the highlight reel Wednesday night, as he absolutely demolished the Celtics big man with another classic thunderous throwdown…..
Allen Moll has been a lifelong NBA and NCAA College Basketball fan who watches and studies games religiously, and coaches youth basketball in his native Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. Allen has also provided content to Bleacherreport.com, Upperdeckblog.com, Cleveland.com, CSN Philly.com, Buckets Magazine, in addition to being a tenured NBA and NCAA columnist for TheHoopDoctors.com.
