Blake Griffin To Miss Olympics

I guess I must've jinxed Blake Griffin the other day with my Vince Carter talk because he tore the meniscus in his left knee and will miss the London Olympics. Damn.

The good news is that Blake is expected to be ready by the time NBA training camp starts in October, so he won't his the beginning of the season...well, unless he tears it again, but let's all hope that doesn't happen.

Blake will be permanently replaced on the Olympic roster by roster Anthony Davis.

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Random News Shit: NBA Free Agency Today Edition

1) Magic, Nets End Trade Talks
The Nets just saved the Magic from themselves because they were about to make a HUGE mistake sending Dwight Howard to New Jersey for Brook Lopez, a few late first round picks, and some scraps. The Magic need to just go ahead and trade the man to the Lakers for Andrew Bynum, which is the only trade that ever made any sense in the first place.

2) Clippers Give Blake Griffin 5-Year Extension

Just in case Blake Griffin needed some extra motivation to Vince Carter someone in the London Olympics, the Clips just gave him 95 million worth.

I admit, this is probably not the smarter basketball move, but business-wise, it makes perfect sense.

3) Nets Re-sign Brook Lopez To Max Contract
I know a lot of people are killing the Nets for giving Brook Lopez this deal, but to be fair to them, anytime you can give a 7-footer who averages 3.6 rebounds per game a $60 million contract, you've got to do it.

4) Tim Duncan Re-signs With Spurs For 3 More Years

I don't know if his knees have 3 years left in them, but it only makes sense he's going to end his career in San Antonio.

5) Mavs Reach Deal With Chris Kaman
It's a one-year deal worth $8 million and it pairs Dirk Nowitzki up with his German national team teammate. A tad pricey, but smart move.

6) Pacers Trade Darren Collison To Mavs
Wait, the Pacers just traded their starting point guard and Dahntay Jones to the Mavericks for the right to pay Ian Mahinmi $16 million to back up Roy Hibbert? I love the post-Larry Bird Pacers, they're ensuring the Heat (and the rest of the East for that matter) don't have to worry about them next year in the playoffs. Awesome!

On another note, I see Mark Cuban has taken heed to my comments and got to work putting his new team together. In addition to stealing Collison from the Pacers, they also amnestied Brendan Haywood and are front-runners to sign Elton Brand. That was quick.

7) Lou Williams Signs With Hawks
If you thought he was trying hard to be a rapper in Philly, you ain't seen nothing yet!

8) Dorrell Wright Traded To Philly, Jarrett Jack To Golden State

Just when Jarrett Jack thought he was gonna make a return appearance to the playoffs, this happens. Bad times.

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Days 1 & 2 Of USA Basketball Scrimmages

I have 2 takeaways after watching this video: 1) That boy Kyrie Irving is fucking good! And 2) Blake Griffin is undoubtedly going to try to Vince Carter someone in this year's Olympic Games.

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Team USA Finalized For London Olympics

With guys like Dwight Howard, Derrick Rose, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh being unable to play in the 2012 Games, a few spots were in flux, but there's your final roster above. The last 3 to make the team were Blake Griffin, James Harden, and Andre Iguodala. I guess I'm fine with that, though it seems weird that Iguodala can make Team USA, while barely making the All-Star team. The size worries me, but this group should be good enough to get the job done. I mean, did you see Kevin Durant in Turkey for the 2010 World Championship? He was fucking amazing!

The London Olympics begin July 27th.

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Blake Griffin Devastates Pau Gasol TWICE!

My God.

Pau Gasol should've been ejected and docked a game check for getting disrespected like this twice.

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Blake Griffin Airballs Consecutive Free Throws

Wow! Talk about a lowlight, I've never seen anybody do this in my entire life. Blake, you need to do better.

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Blake Griffin's Kia Optima Dunk Interview

A few days ago FunnyOrDie put released this video of Blake Griffin getting dunked over by a Kia Optima, and today they released a follow up interview with Wyatt Cenac Kensington Rutherford. This shit is so good!

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Random News Shit: All-Star Weekend & Other NBA Headlines Edition

1) 2012 Slam Dunk Contest Contestants Set

Derrick Williams vs. Paul George vs. Iman Shumpert vs. Chase Budinger. I know you're excited!

Seriously, this line-up has to be the worst thing to happen to the Dunk Contest since that retarded wheel shit in 2002. And really, Chase Budinger? He very well might be the whitest person to ever participate in the Slam Dunk Contest. The NBA couldn't outsource and get Jacob Tucker and/or Terrico White to be in the Dunk Contest? At least we know what they can do.

I don't know, it could turn out to be a great Dunk Contest, but I won't come in with my usual excitement. Then again, maybe that's a good thing? Usually we're all amped and it slightly disappoints. This year no one will be expecting anything. Oh well, we'll see next weekend.

2) Rising Stars Line-Ups Picked
Is it the NBA's goal to fuck with the Rookie game every time there's a lockout? This game used to only be for rookies, then the '99 lockout happened and it become the Rookies vs. Sophomores. Now after the 2011 lockout, they've changed it to the Rising Stars Challenge where there's a field of rookies and sophomores that get drafted onto teams. If we've learned anything from the 2002 Dunk Contest wheel tragedy, it's that the NBA should stop fucking with their All-Star Weekend events.

Issue #2 with this event: Why are the teams lazily named "Team Shaq" and "Team Chuck"? They couldn't have had them come out with cool names like you would for your fantasy football team? Is it a must that we keep retarding our creativity by naming teams "Team [insert name of whoever's team it is]"?? Getting uniforms with the crazy team names should be the biggest problem, but even that could be solved by just letting them wear their team uniforms like they've done it the past.I just don't get it.

Anyway, Shaq's team is Blake Griffin, Jeremy Lin, Ricky Rubio, Markieff Morris, Kemba Walker, Landry Fields, Norris Cole, Brandon Knight, Tristan Thompson, and Greg Monroe. Chuck's team is Kyrie Irving, DeMarcus Cousins, Derrick Williams, Paul George, MarShon Brooks, John Wall, Tiago Splitter, Evan Turner, Gordon Heyward, and Kawhi Leonard. My only question is how in the heck did the 2010 #1 overall draft pick, John Wall, fall to the 12th pick in this draft?? Did they forget how he and DeMarcus Cousins dominated this game last year?

And with that being said, I've got to give the edge to Chuck's squad, though I will be rooting for Shaq's because he has the Heat's Norris Cole, Ft. Lauderdale's Brandon Knight, and the media's Linsanity. Oh yeah, and then there's these guys Blake Griffin and Ricky Rubio. That combo is a highlight reel waiting to happen.

3) J.R. Smith To Join The Knicks
This is great news for Eastern Conference teams because I can't think of anything the Knicks needed more than another high volume shooter that will take shots away from Jeremy Lin. Sweet!

4) Seattle Announces Plans For New Sports Arena
Too this won't bring them their Super Sonics. I mean, it could bring back they're name and uniforms, but it wouldn't bring back their actual team. You know, the one starring Kevin Durant that was stolen a few years back? Yeah, that team. If anything, they'll have to start from scratch like when the Cleveland Browns came back and watch their actual team ball out elsewhere. Bad times.

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2012 NBA All-Star Starters Announced

There they are, LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Dwight Howard, Dwyane Wade, and Derrick Rose for the East, and Kevin Durant, Blake Griffin, Andrew Bynum, Kobe Bryant, and Chris Paul for the West.

The first, and most obvious, snub is Kevin Love. I mean, all Big Love has done this year is average 25.3 points a game (4th in the NBA behind Kobe, LeBron, and Durant) and 13.6 rebounds a game (2nd in the NBA). Don't get me wrong, I totally get why Blake Griffin got the nod, but it's a shame someone can put together those type of numbers and not start in the All-Star game.

I'm fine with the rest, thought I wouldn't have been mad if Bosh started over Carmelo.

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Blake Griffin Destroys Kendrick Perkins' Life

R.I.P. Kendrick Perkins. My condolences to his family and friends.

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Tyga - Lob City (LA Clippers Remix)

Tyga - Lob City (L.A. Clippers Remix)

A wise man once said this would happen, I wonder who that was??

Tyga isn't the only one to do the inevitably (of course), check out this Lob City music video by some rapper we've never heard of.

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Inside Grantland: Blake Griffin and Bill Simmons Part II

I'm glad they made a video about Simmons' overhead clap because it really validates me taking time out to write about it 10 months ago.

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Inside Grantland: Blake Griffin & Bill Simmons Part I

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Inside Grantland: Blake Griffin & Bill Simmons

I thoroughly enjoyed this video and hope Grantland does more just like it. Well not just like it, but you know what I mean.

Question: Is Blake Griffin the funniest person that looks like he has no personality in the world? There's no denying dude looks like a snore, but he's been consistently funny every time I've seen/heard him recently. It's out of either Blake or Eli Manning. Or maybe Eli is in a different class because I only laugh when I see him because of his remedial face. Yeah, you're right, either way.

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Blake Griffin Is... Hilarious?

Since David Stern and the NBA owners are a bunch of idiot douches who need to take back money from the player because they can't resist the urge to give below average players huge contracts, Blake Griffin needed something to do with all his free time. That's where FunnyOrDie.com comes in. For the past several weeks Blake has been interning for FOD, and here are 3 fruits of his lockout out labor.


Final verdict: Blake is funny. Now, of course he isn't about to go out and set the stand up circuit on fire, but he did a really good job in all 3 of these videos. There's actually another one floating around that wasn't all that funny, but we'll just expunge that one from the records and rock with these. Very good work from a man that probably needs the smile and giggles to cope with the reality that he's about to miss his 2nd full season of his 3 year career.

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Blake Griffin Is SO Disrespectful

Damn.

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2011 NBA All-Star Weekend Recap

BBVA All-Star Celebrity Game
A lot of people don't care about this game, but I love it. It's always fun to see if celebrities can really play or not if you ask me (for example: Trey Songz can play, Nick Cannon can't).

Best Moment: Justin Bieber crossing over Common. Okay, he didn't drive and dunk from the top of the key like Rocky from "3 Ninjas" did afterward, but it was quite impressive. MVP-worthy? No, but with a fan vote, if you didn't know Justin Bieber was gonna win you are a moron.

What Did We Learn: That at least 3 players in this game could start for the Cleveland Cavs tomorrow. 1) Scottie Pippen 2) Romeo 3) Jalen Rose. Yeah, Romeo couldn't get on the court for USC a few years back and Jalen Rose can no longer jump off of the ground, but still, they're not better than Christian Eyenga or Alonzo Gee? And as far as Scottie Pippen goes, man, he looked like he was playing for an NBA contract. People were talking about Jordan making a come back last week, but Pippen looked like he desperately needed to make one. Either that, or he put all the money he has left on his team to win. All I'm saying about Pip is don't be surprised if it comes out that he called up Jordan and asked for a try-out with the Bobcats.

T-Mobile Rookie Challenge & Youth Jam
This game was a 40 minute highlight reel with commercials and a lame halftime show (get this Dougie shit the fuck up outta 2011, please). DeMarcus Cousins showed out with 33 and 14, DeJuan Blair went for 28 and 14, James Harden's beard chipped in a cool 30, but John Wall was the man of the evening with 22 assists. Not as much debate about this MVP, though I personally would've made he and Cousins co-MVPs if I was in charge.

Best Moment: There were like 8 best moments! Wall's bounce pass alley-oop to Blake Griffin, Blair's off-glass alley-oop to himself, and Cousins' off-glass alley-oop to Wall to name a few.

What Did We Learn: That DeMarcus Cousins is gonna be really really good if he ever grows up mentally. Thank goodness he didn't have swing on any teammates for not getting him the ball after this game.

Haier Shooting Stars and Taco Bell Skills Challenge
I'm combining these 2 events because, well, really, why not? Anyway, what's up with Coco Miller's hair? She looks like Stevie Wonder with bangs. I did some light Googling and didn't find that she had any notable disease, but that hair bother me for the entire event.

Best Moment: Kenny "The Jet" Smith hitting that half court shot on the first try in the first round. Reminded me of myself out there.

What Did We Learn: My boy Steph Curry got skills! As far as I'm concerned, he could win this event every year if he wanted to.

Foot Locker 3-Point Contest
Has one team ever had more different 3-Point Contest winners in the history of the NBA, because James Jones was the Heat's 4th? The other 3 were Glenn Rice, Jason Kapono, and Daequan Cook.

Best Moment: James Jones beating out 2 Celtics. Last night on Facebook I said, "The East loss, but lets look on the bright side: the Heat (57 pts) finally beat the Celtics (28 pts) in something besides 'wins against the Cavs' this year." I completely forgot Jones sonned Paul Pierce and Ray Allen. That felt awesome!

What Did We Learn: That if you show up with a haircut like Boobie Gibson's you deserve to lose (though that pic didn't do the wackness of it any justice).

Sprite Slam Dunk Contest
At the end of the Dunk Contest I was left with underwhelmed feeling I can only compare to finally seeing Halle Berry's tits in "Swordfish" (coming in 2nd would definitely be seeing that Sheneka Adams' pussy was hairy). When I think back though, the Dunk Contest was dope as fuck! DeMar DeRozan's dunks were ill (dunk 1 and dunk 2), Serge Ibaka's were ill (dunk 1 and dunk 2), and those guys didn't even make the finals. JaVale McGee had 2 incredible dunks (1 and 2), a good 1, and a dud, and Blake Griffin had 4 dope dunks (1, 2, 3, and 4). It was a great show, Blake should've won, and he did.

It's really sad that there's this weird anti-Blake Griffin backlash floating around right now, but fuck it, niggas are never satisfied. If you want to complain about the dunk itself, that's fine, it was boring, but why are people mad he jumped over the front of the car and not the middle? You're asking the man to do something probably humanly impossible for a person his size. Griffin is 6'10", the 2011 Kia Optima is 57.3 inches (or 4.8 feet), and the goal is 10 feet. Now explain to me how he was supposed to jump over the center of the car, catch the alley-oop, dunk, and land safely. I'll wait.

Best Moment: The 2011 Kia Optima coming out. I never liked Kia cars, but that bitch they rolled out Saturday night was fly!

What Did We Learn: That you can't satisfy everyone. Here we are with the illest overall Dunk Contest since 2000, and all you hear in the aftermath is people bitch about Blake Griffin jumping over the front of the car. I'm not the type of guy to tell people "you can't do it, so shut the fuck up," but YOU CAN'T DO IT, SO SHUT THE FUCK UP!

60th NBA All-Star Game
Even though the West lead for basically the entire game, it was still quite entertaining. Kobe actively trying to win MVP and running out of gas, LeBron taking over in the 4th and messing around and getting a triple-double, and Kevin Durant coming up big in the clutch. Sadly Dwyane Wade and Dwight Howard left the game early with injuries though (oh, wait, that was just Dwyane Wade).

Should Kobe have won MVP? Of course. Even though he disappeared in the 4th quarter when defense started to be played, he still scored the most points (37), grabbed the most rebounds (14), and the game was in L.A. for goodness sake. Yeah, LeBron got the 2nd triple-double in All-Star Game history, but the East loss. End of story.

Best Moment: Paul Pierce getting booed every time he touched the ball like LeBron James in Cleveland. The only difference is that Pierce actually came up in L.A., while LeBron has no real ties to Cleveland besides playing for the Cavs, and it being in the same state he was born.

What Did We Learn: That Kobe knew this was his one shot at beating Michael Jordan in something since he knows the Lakers aren't winning another Championship.

Parting Notes: 1) Did we ever find out why so many people wore yellow sneakers over the weekend? Are they the new version of those thick Lance Armstrong rubber bands? Or maybe everyone was trying to support Kobe and the Lakers after they all wore those neon yellow/green sneakers on Christmas.

2) Am I the only one surprised Skip Bayless and others didn't make a big deal out of all the East starters did the powder toss with LeBron before the tip? I thought for sure they'd collectively reach and say some shit like "Michael Jordan would've never let anyone else do the powder toss with him." I was pleasantly surprised everyone left it alone, although I wouldn't be surprised if Skip was just saving it for later.

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Fiyah's Show Of Disrespect Ep. 106

The podcast is back! And to help celebrate this joyous occasion I break the glass and bring Andy in as my special guest. Together we discuss The Man With No Nickname aka Blake Griffin, and dissect a bunch of the potential nicknames that have been floating around the internet for the past few months.

Fiyah's Show Of Disrespect Ep. 106

Oh, and here's the picture we were talking about:

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Blake Griffin Reviews YouTube Dunks

At this point does it even matter what Blake Griffin does tonight at the Dunk Contest? There's no way the NBA is gonna let him lose nobody how he performs. It'll be like when Justin Bieber won MVP of the All-Star Celebrity Game last night over Scottie Pippen.

I do expect him to do well, but at this point, it really makes no difference if he does or not.

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NBA All-Star Reserves Announced; Kevin Love Snubbed

I'm too outraged that the 32 coaches in the NBA thought Kevin Love's 21.4 points per game, 15.5 rebounds per game, 47% from the field, 44% from three, and 87% from the free throw line weren't good enough to be on the All-Star team.

Well, here's who did make the All-Star teams: On the East there's Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Rajon Rondo, Ray Allen, Joe Johnson, Al Horford, and Chris Bosh. Out West there's Russell Westbrook, Dirk Nowitzki, Pau Gasol, Deron Williams, Manu Ginobili, Blake Griffin, and Tim Duncan.

Seriously though, Tim Duncan?? Like Chris Webber said last week, this isn't a lifetime achievement award, it's the All-Star game. If we're gonna throw Tim Duncan on the squad, why not put Steve Nash on over Russell Westbrook or Deron Williams?

But even if you're gonna give Timmy a lifetime achievement award, why is Blake Griffin on the team over Kevin Love?? Don't get me wrong, Blake is having a wonderful rookie season, but if he couldn't dunk, would he still make this team over Love? I don't think so. Again, I don't want to take anything away from Blake, I actually think both he and Love should've made the team, but if it came down to the 2, you've got to take Big Love.

Hopefully David Stern will do the right thing and choose Love to replace Yao Ming on the team, but Yahoo! Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski was told Steve Nash is a "strong favorite" for that spot. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Kevin Love wasn't the only snub though, here's a list of some of the bigger snubs: LaMarcus Aldridge (21.3 ppg, 9 rpg), Monta Ellis (25.1 ppg, 5.6 apg, 2.3 spg), Eric Gordon (24.1 ppg, 4.5 apg), Kevin Martin (23.1 ppg, 41% from 3), Zach Randolph (20 ppg, 13.2 rpg), Lamar Odom (15.4 ppg, 9.6 rpg, 57% from the field), Raymond Felton (17.1 ppg, 8.9 apg), Andrea Bargnani (20.9 ppg, 5.5 apg), and Luis Scola (19.3 ppg, 8.5 rpg).

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Blake Griffin Highlight Starring Bill Simmons

I watched this dunked EARLY this morning on my phone and I thought that was Bill Simmons I saw in the crowd, but I wasn't positive until he tweeted about it earlier.

Great dunk by Blake, but even better reaction by Bill with the fist followed by the white guy overhead clap. In the words of Fabolous, "Niiiiicceeee!"

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