Here’s what you should be reading about Blake Griffin today:
Blake Griffin must stay healthy. Admittedly, it’s a massive request for anyone in a Clippers’ uniform. And someone who missed all of 2009-10 after knee surgery. But this is a plea to the basketball gods that must be heard, because Griffin saved the first half of the season, whether Andre Miller wants to believe that or not. He made people on the East Coast stay up and watch the Clippers. That’s Moses-parting-the-Red-Sea-stuff. He even awakened Baron Davis, another miracle. Quite simply, Griffin is one of a handful of players worth twice the price of admission, and what’s really surprising is he plays power forward, a position that usually doesn’t defy gravity. Most players his size have gum on their soles and are nothing more than clumsy brutes who bang and rebound. Griffin’s got some ballerina in him. A big future, too.