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04/05/2012
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Play of the Day/Poster Child: Pau Gasol and Blake Griffin

Los Angeles Lakers v Golden State Warriors


We really should just rename this column from Poster Children to Blake Griffin’s Poster Children. On this occasion, the valiant Spaniard and star for The Los Angeles Lakers twice bold went where really no man should ever go, and twice became the latest victim of the Mayor of Lob City, Blake Griffin. Rest assured Pau Gasol wasn’t as jovial on this night as he is in the photo above.

The first dunk isn’t really Pau’s fault. Was it a foul? It could have been. Maybe, but check the replay, Pau never attempts to box out Griffin, and he does come out of nowhere. It’s not Blake’s fault that he can almost completely jump over the seven footer from Spain. It’s unfortunate that these things happen sometimes, but it’s great because then we get shots like this:

Painful right? You can almost sense that Pau just wants to know why Blake is so damned mean. Blake wasn’t done though. Admittedly, this next one might very well have been a foul, but it wasn’t called that way, so we get what we get sometimes, and in this case what we get is a beautiful photo of a humiliating posterizing dunk.
The nightly recounts of what Blake Griffin continues to do on a nightly basis sound like the stories you hear of how you people describe Batman stopping crime. Luckily we’ve got cameras to capture the action, much to chagrin of the NBA’s Poster Children.


About the Author

J.C. De Leon
Many of you might know me as an online film critic, but my first love and passion was and always will be sports. Particularly N.B.A. Basketball. I know my fair share of N.F.L. Football as well. I'm a student of the game and I look at it from all angles. I'm not a homer for one team, I love it all. I just love sports.
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