Sports Date Of The Week: NBA All-Star Weekend

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This weekend, the NBA’s finest will showcase their skills in a variety of events which will lead up to the All-Star Game. Here’s what you can expect to see this weekend: On Friday, you can catch the All-Star Celebrity Game with everyone from rapper Common to Jersey Shore’s Vinny Guadagnino competing. Dwight Howard and Kevin [...]

Watch: Blake Griffin Posterizes Kendrick Perkins

[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] The Internet and basketball fans were abuzz last night over Blake Griffins‘ dunk on Oklahoma City Thunder center Kendrick Perkins. The dunk was reminiscent of his other best in-game dunk which he slammed down last year [...]

Rare Blake Griffin Trading Card Went For $38k

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Blake Griffin‘s popularity in the NBA is no secret, but his popularity just got an extra boost. Panini America just announced that last week they sold a 2009-10 National Treasures Blake Griffin trading card for $38,032. The national treasure card came with an NBA Logoman patch from one of Griffins’ game-used jerseys, and Griffin’s autograph. [...]

Preliminary Team USA Basketball Team Announced

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A dozen players will be sent to London this summer to represent the USA in basketball. The preliminary roster of 19 players has just been announced. Here is the list: Guards: Chauncey Billups, Kobe Bryant, Eric Gordon, Chris Paul, Derrick Rose, Dwyane Wade, Russell Westbrook, and Deron Williams. Forwards: LaMarcus Aldridge, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh, [...]

New Addition To Clippers Line-Up All Smiles At Media Day

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New addition to the Los Angeles Clippers team, Caron Butler, was all smiles for the cameras at Media Day yesterday. Butler, who agreed to a three-year, $24-million contract with the Clippers last Thursday, looked like he was having fun with Blake Griffin, Chris Kaman and DeAndre Jordan. Jordan almost signed with the Golden State Warriors, [...]

Athlete Sighting: Blake Griffin Serving Up Subway Sandwiches In LA

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Blake Griffin was spotted at a Subway restaurant near the UCLA campus in Westwood, serving up sandwiches to kick off the chain’s customer appreciation month. Griffins’ appearance at the store gained a lot of attention from customers and store employees who gathered around to watch the Clippers star spin a basketball on his finger while [...]

NBA Players Look Fashionable While Dunking For GQ

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The latest issue of GQ features a fashion spread with some of the NBA’s younger players dunking in suits. Lucky for the magazine, the shoot just became relevant this week when the lockout was lifted. Check out the “air apparents” below: Blake Griffin Andre Iguodala JaVale McGee Russell Westbrook Shannon Brown Photos: courtesy of The [...]

Power Balance Owes Kobe Bryant $400K

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Power Balance, the brand that nearly a year ago was forced to admit their advertising was misleading in Australia, has been struggling ever since a $5 million class-action lawsuit was filed against the company in the U.S. The lawsuit and others have been settled, and now the company is in even bigger trouble. Power Balance [...]

Blake Griffin Appears In Kia Commercial; Not Dunking

[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] Blake Griffin appears in this new commercial for the 2012 Kia Optima, and he isn’t dunking. Or doing anything with a basketball, even. It’s pretty random, but like the YouTube description says for the video: “Kia [...]

Blake Griffin And Kevin Love Resort To Playing Jenga During Lockout

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Who doesn’t love a good game of Jenga? Blake Griffin and Kevin Love used their time during the lockout to film a commercial for the iconic game. Chec…