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Blake Austin Griffin (born March 16, 1989) [1] is an American former professional basketball player. Griffin primarily played with the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and played college basketball for the Oklahoma Sooners, where he was named the consensus national college player of the year as a sophomore.
The Los Angeles Clippers, who won the draft lottery on May 19, 2009, used their first overall draft pick to draft Blake Griffin from the University of Oklahoma. [1] [2] However, he missed the entire 2009–10 season due to surgery on his broken left kneecap, which he injured during the pre-season. [3]
This includes ten players taken in the first round of the NBA Draft and six players in the first round of the WNBA Draft. In 2009, Blake Griffin became the only Oklahoma basketball player to have been selected as the overall number one pick when he was drafted by the Los Angeles Clippers. In the 2010s, nine Oklahoma players have been selected ...
Griffin was drafted No. 1 overall in the 2009 NBA Draft by the Los Angeles Clippers, but didn't play his rookie season until the following year due to a stress fracture he suffered in his knee in ...
The Prime Video NBA studio show will be based on the Amazon MGM Studios lot in Culver City, California, and it unites Griffin, the No. 1 pick in the 2009 draft and six-time All-Star, and Nowitzki ...
Blake Griffin. Corey Nickols/Getty Images for IMDb Following a prolific, era-defining career in the NBA, Blake Griffin has officially announced his retirement. Griffin, 35, broke the news in a ...
First Overall NBA Draft Pick: Selected for an NBA All-Star Game: Selections. Year Round ... Blake Griffin: Oklahoma 2008: 1: 7 Eric Gordon: Indiana: 2: 35 DeAndre ...
The 2009–10 Los Angeles Clippers season was the 40th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA).. The season saw the team draft Blake Griffin, but during a preseason game, he went down with a knee injury and was unable to play in what could have been his rookie season.