Blake Griffin Dunk

Blake Griffin Dunk, My buddy was in the building for one of those Halley’s comet moments, when physics-defying athleticism warps reality and freezes time. And my buddy missed it.

Journalist J.A. Adande was retrieving his laptop in the press room, where he caught Blake Griffin’s dunk live on TV. And as Clippers fans exalted with Richter scale reaction, Adande scurried out to the court, just to hear it. To feel it.

“And that buzz,” he said, “lasted the rest of the game.”

Griffin’s dunk last week over Oklahoma City’s Kendrick Perkins was the dunk of the season. Even LeBron James tweeted as much — and this was soon after LeBron literally dunked over John Lucas III.

One could argue that Griffin’s dunk was the greatest dunk in the history of dunks. If you didn’t see it — go see it! — here’s the play-by-play account:

B Griffin flares off a pick he set and receives a bounce pass on the left side of the lane, parallel to the top of the half circle, the one that extends from under the basket.

B In one motion, he catches the pass and leaps toward the basket.

B Perkins gets in front of Griffin’s elevating body and lunges forward with his arms up.

B In midair, Griffin cocks the ball back with his right hand while he cold-cocks Perkins in the face with his left hand.

B At its apex, the ball in his hand is more than a foot higher than the rim. Griffin viciously throws it at the rim — catching the rim with his fingers — and as he falls back to earth, his mouth is agape when he hits the hardwood.

Blake Griffin Dunk On Perkins

Blake Griffin Dunk On Perkins, Blake Griffin’s jaw-dropping one-handed jam over Kendrick Perkins sent Los Angeles Clippers fans into a frenzy, fired up his teammates, lit up the Twitterverse and burned the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Griffin had 22 points to go with Chris Paul’s 26 points and 14 assists in a 112-100 victory Monday night that snapped the Thunder’s four-game winning streak in a matchup of division leaders.

Griffin downplayed his monster move after the game, a sly smile only briefly breaking his serious expression.

“CP commands so much attention out there. He came off the pick-and-roll and he hit me in stride,” Griffin said.

Paul added: “I told Blake after the game, ‘Thanks for letting me be part of that.'”

DeAndre Jordan grabbed Griffin from behind in a celebratory bear hug as the basket got replayed over and over in the third quarter.

Jordan, who had 11 points and 11 rebounds, couldn’t help himself.

“I was shocked. I didn’t know what to do, so I just grabbed him. I hit him kind of hard,” he said. “I’m going to go home and watch it again. It’s probably going to be the screensaver on my phone.”

Griffin said he knew he’d made an impression judging by the crowd’s raucous response. Then he felt Jordan behind him.

“He armlocked me,” Griffin said. “I couldn’t breathe.”

The reaction on Twitter came fast and furious.

Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald tweeted: “Blake Griffin just made one of the top dunks of the season. Maybe even his career. (hashtag) Beast.”

Tracy McGrady of the Atlanta Hawks weighed in with “yo, crazy crazy dunk by the dude Blake Griffin.”