Los Angeles Clippers: Top 5 Blake Griffin Dunks

1. Blake Griffin Turns Kendrick Perkins Into A Prop

This dunk has everything. Blake jams all over a top-notch defender (at the time) in Kendrick Perkins. He doesn’t push off in any way. He does manage to reach the rim on the throw down. Perkins even aggressively fouls him on the play and it just doesn’t matter.

Any issue that people might have with putting some of Blake’s other dunks in the all-time pantheon are simply not present on this one. Clippers announcer Mike Smith says it best: “It’s better than a Mozgov! I didn’t think it was possible to top him … look at that play!”

Is it a coincidence that Perkins, 27 at the time of this dunk, rapidly declined after that season and is out of the league right now less than five years later? Probably.

Perkins was the Thunder’s full-time starter for two full seasons after this dunk and started every game for them in their run to the Finals that year. Still, this is one of the rare dunks vicious enough that you could pretend that it actually negatively impacted Perkins’ career.

Unfortunately, this play will probably be most people’s lasting memory of Perkins. As a starter on a championship team in Boston and on two other Finals teams, Perkins deserves better than that. Still, this dunk is historic in every possible way.

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Griffin has a lot of highlight dunks left in his career, but this one will be almost impossible to top.