Blake Griffin: Will He Be the NBA’s 2010-2011 Rookie of the Year?

And with the first pick of the 2009 NBA Draft, the Los Angeles Clippers Select: Blake Griffin.

These words uttered by David Stern were a cause for jubilation in the Clippers camp. 

No longer would the Clippers wallow in mediocrity.  No longer would opposing teams look at their calendars and count games against the red, white, and blue as "automatic wins."

Their savior had arrived in the form of a 6'10", 250-pound behemoth—Blake Griffin, a dominant player at Oklahoma University, who has been compared to the likes of Amare Stoudemire,  Bleacher Report - Los Angeles Clippers
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