Ballin’: Blake Griffin Had a One-Handed Dunk on a Pass off the Backboard, also a Magnificent Block on Kyle Singler
LA Clippers 88, Detroit 76: Blake. Griffin. That block on Kyle Singler was authoritative. The Paper Clips, winners of 10 straight, are 18-6.
Houston 109, New York 96: The Knicks suffered their first home loss of the year mostly thanks to a putrid 2nd quarter in which they were outscored 27-11. Jeremy Lin, in his only trip to the Garden this season, scored 22 points (9-of-15 shooting) for Houston. The Rockets led by 15 or more a large portion of the 2nd half in beating the Knicks for the second time this season. Carmelo, Rasheed and Marcus Camby all sat out, leaving someone named Chris Copeland to start and score 29 points.
Oklahoma City 107, San Antonio 93: The much-anticipated Stephen Jackson-Serge Ibaka showdown didn’t materialize. Jackson never got to “go in his mouth.” Ibaka did go off, though: 25 points, 17 rebounds. The Thunder, 20-4, have won 11 straight.
Orlando 102, Minnesota 93: Big Baby Davis scored 28 points on 13-of-17 shooting and the Magic erased a 12-point halftime deficit to win their 3rd in a row. At 11-13, they have a better record than Dwight Howard and the Lakers (11-14). Wait until the Michael Jordan of Turkey returns! What really sucks about this defeat for Minnesota is because Ricky Rubio played 16 minutes (o points), he won’t play tonight against the Heat. Doctors say no back-to-backs. Wouldn’t it have made more sense to hold him out of this to play against the Heat?
Memphis 80, Chicago 71: Rudy Gay traveled on this dunk, no? Totally looked like three steps.
Phoenix 101, Sacramento 90: This is probably the highlight of Jimmer Fredette’s career to date, right? He scored 22 points. The Kings grabbed an 11-point half time lead, then frittered it away in the 3rd quarter and fell to 7-17.

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32 Responses to “Ballin’: Blake Griffin Had a One-Handed Dunk on a Pass off the Backboard, also a Magnificent Block on Kyle Singler”
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December 18th, 2012 at 11:28 AM
Gonna be a lot of DNP-olds for the Knicks this season.
December 18th, 2012 at 11:30 AM
Blake Griffin has godly coordination. I can’t even comprehend how he can fly a million miles an hour, catch the ball wherever it is (even below his waist) and still throw it down. Guys that big aren’t supposed to do that.
December 18th, 2012 at 11:34 AM
Are we going to get a Gossip Girl post or what?
December 18th, 2012 at 11:36 AM
Which miraculously disappears on moves in the pivot.
December 18th, 2012 at 11:39 AM
You’ll laugh, but I was actually hoping for a finale preview and/or series retrospective yesterday. Perhaps interview style between JMac and KyDerbyJay. Would have been fun.
December 18th, 2012 at 11:40 AM
You’ll laugh, but I was actually hoping for a finale preview and/or series retrospective yesterday. Perhaps interview style between JMac and KyDerbyJay. Would have been fun. Htown
That’s funny. The only reason I knew it was the series finale was a FB post by Jay this morning. I further investigated and AV Club gave the episode a F.
December 18th, 2012 at 11:46 AM
Lin showed out last night. Good job by the Knicks on making easy for him to do so.
December 18th, 2012 at 11:46 AM
With a few posts on Gossip Girl message boards or something, I’m sure the post could have gotten thousands of page views and lots of unique visitors.
December 18th, 2012 at 11:47 AM
gay was like four steps, great dunk though
December 18th, 2012 at 11:48 AM
good recap.
December 18th, 2012 at 11:49 AM
Clippers bench reaction to Griffin’s jam was great. “Ho hum, Another freakish display of athleticism by Blake. Yawn”
December 18th, 2012 at 11:53 AM
There are probably about 50 uncalled travels per NBA game. No exaggeration. I’m surprised people even mention it at this point, considering it’s so ingrained
December 18th, 2012 at 11:53 AM
Any chance Orlando benches Turkoglu when he comes back? The Magic have a nice rotation going right now with Harkless/Moore playing SF. Nevermind, what am I saying? This is Orlando, Michael Jordan of Turkey will be getting 40 minutes of run while shooting 40%.
December 18th, 2012 at 11:54 AM
Can’t really imagine why that would have made sense. Apparently they can’t beat the Magic with him so I’d assume they can’t beat the Heat either — more likely to get a win vs the Magic in that case.
December 18th, 2012 at 11:56 AM
More informative than my recap which would have been a photo of a clogged toilet which best sums up the Bulls offense
December 18th, 2012 at 11:56 AM
Harkless’ career high is 10 and Moore is a guard. Turk shouldn’t get too many mins though because Reddick and Afflalo are both deserving of 35 a game
December 18th, 2012 at 11:59 AM
maybe so, but Memphis is pretty good. BUTWAITDIDYOUSEETHISDUNK?
December 18th, 2012 at 12:00 PM
Chandler Parsons is a quy. Once he can consistently knock down the 3, he’s gonna be really good.
December 18th, 2012 at 12:01 PM
I had a crusade last year in Ballin’ against this, but I don’t think most people care. I think it ruins the game.
December 18th, 2012 at 12:03 PM
A well-deserved F. It’s fine to make fun of the show all you want, but it was great —really effing great— for 2 years. Then good for 1 year, bad for 1 year, and unwatchable for the final 2 years. But the first 2 years were delicious, delicious candy.
December 18th, 2012 at 12:05 PM
I’d be perfectly ok with never seeing another dunk post
December 18th, 2012 at 12:05 PM
We talkin’ Dexter in here?
December 18th, 2012 at 12:07 PM
It’s fine to make fun of the show all you want, but it was great —really effing great— for 2 years.
I’ve never seen it. It was all part of a meme here several years ago regarding TBL watching Gossip Girl over MNF. Or something. That was awhile ago.
Back in the beginning TBL was pimping GG, FNL and Lost. I got into Lost, couldn’t get into FNL and knew GG wasn’t my cup o’ tea.
December 18th, 2012 at 12:07 PM
The AV Club review was great, as was the TV.com takedown. I’m awaiting the post at Vulture, which has been GG’s best friend over the years.
December 18th, 2012 at 12:16 PM
I’ve revisited the 1st season and it was great, but I don’t think any other season comes close. Not a big fan of season 2.
December 18th, 2012 at 12:16 PM
/doing a slow burn.
//Where is the love, J-Mac?
December 18th, 2012 at 12:18 PM
If a demand for a Gossip Girl post in the daily Jets roundup couldn’t move JMac’s needle, one here won’t either.
December 18th, 2012 at 12:20 PM
Yeah, my bad I meant Afflalo and not Moore. Playing JJ at SG and Afflalo at SF is working right now for the Magic and Turkoglu has a terrible habit of not moving the ball when he’s in.
December 18th, 2012 at 12:22 PM
If a demand for a Gossip Girl post in the daily Jets roundup couldn’t move JMac’s needle, one here won’t either.
I didn’t see that one, but I purposefully waited until Ball’n to ask since he usually lurks in the comments of Balling.
December 18th, 2012 at 12:26 PM
Was Lin booed by the fans?
December 18th, 2012 at 12:33 PM
from the looks of the crowd shots in that clip, fan interest is through the roof in Detroit. that arena had to have been 25-30% full.
December 18th, 2012 at 1:11 PM
Quite the opposite.