“Lob City.” That was the nickname given to the Clippers over a decade ago. At the time, Chris Paul was the conductor, and he had two exceptional dunkers alongside him: Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan. It is thanks to this trio that the Clippers will become one of the sexiest teams in the NBA.
The high point of this period undoubtedly dates from March 10, 2013. That evening, the Clippers welcome the Pistons, and an “alley-oop” will break social networks, even though they are still young. It is no longer a posterization, but a complete crushing that DeAndre Jordan carries out on the person of Brandon Knight.
Certainly, there is a 20 cm gap between the two, but the images are so violent… that they send Blake Griffin's big dunks on Timofey Mozgov or Kendrick Perkins to oblivion.
“This is 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 DeAndre 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 had the other day in practice…”
As for Blake Griffin, specialist at the time in “poster dunks” and winner of the Slam Dunk Contest, he bluntly declared: “I have never witnessed such a beautiful dunk in my life. It's what we call the dunk of the year. »
Brandon Knight's humor
Obviously, in the next minute, Twitter was ablaze, and DeAndre Jordan quickly became the most commented topic, while the “RIP Knight” multiplied.
Moreover, a smart guy, not necessarily very funny, had completely modified Brandon Knight's Wikipedia page to announce that he had “died under the blows of DeAndre Jordan”.
The most famous poster of the year 2013, Brandon Knight reacted with humor and lucidity. “The staff did not say in the pre-match that the Clippers were specialists in lobbed passes” he quipped, before adding: “It’s the culture of the moment. People take something and make a big deal out of it. I can laugh about it, it's funny to me. DeAndre Jordan is an athlete. I would jump again, that's how I am. »
And why had he tried to go up against this alley-oop and face such a monster? “When I go on the court, I don't accept that people dunk six, seven or eight times and not try to stop them. I make it a personal matter. Where I come from and where I grew up, you refuse to let it happen like that. »
