“Lob City”. This is the nickname given to the Clippers 10 years ago. At the time, Chris Paul was the conductor, and he had two exceptional dunkers at his side: Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan. It is thanks to this trio that the Clippers will become one of the sexiest formations in the NBA.
The high point of this period probably dates from March 10, 2013. That evening, the Clippers welcome the Pistons, and an “alley oop” will break the social networks, yet still very young. It is no longer a posterization, but a regular crushing that DeAndre Jordan carries out on the person of Brandon Knight. Admittedly, there is a 20 cm difference between the two, but the images are so violent… that they send Blake Griffin’s big dunks on Mozgov or Perkins to oblivion.
“It’s the first time I’ve seen Caron Butler run so fast towards me. So I understood that it was a nice dunk, especially since Ronny started dancing. will tell DeAndre Jordan, whose mimicry will become a meme.
Right next to Jordan, at the time of the dunk, Chris Paul is ironic. ” It was completely crazy. But it was almost as good as the dunk I put on the other day in practice…”
As for Blake Griffin, specialist at the time of “poster dunks” and winner of the Slam Dunk Contest, he declares bluntly: “I have never witnessed such a beautiful dunk in my life. It’s called the dunk of the year. »
Brandon Knight’s humor
Of course, within a minute, Twitter had gone up in flames, and DeAndre Jordan quickly became the most commented topic, while the “RIP Knight” multiplied.
Moreover, a little clever, not necessarily very funny, had outright modified Knight’s Wikipedia page to announce that he had “died under the blows of DeAndre Jordan”.
Posterized the most famous of the year 2013, Brandon Knight reacted with humor and lucidity. “The staff did not say in the pre-game that the Clippers were specialists in lob passes” he quipped, before adding: “It’s the culture of the moment. People take something and make a big story out of it. I can laugh about it, it’s funny for me. DeAndre Jordan is an athlete. I would jump again, I am like that. »
And why had he tried to counter on this alley-oop and face such a monster? “When I get on the field, I don’t accept people dunking six, seven or eight times and not trying to stop them. I make it personal. Where I come from and where I grew up, you refuse to let it happen like that. »
