Blake Griffin Is a Monster for the LA Clippers & the NBA

"Sasquatch, Godzilla, King Kong/Lochness, Goblin, Ghoul, a zombie with no conscience." Jay-Z couldn't have said it better on Kanye West's hit song 'Monster'. Blake Griffin is a monster on another level, beyond a myth. Believe, for this is as real as it gets.

Making Hollywood's other basketball team star studded, it's light's out at STAPLES even when they take off the Laker floor. Clipper nation is finally a destination fans want to flock to and future free agents will migrate to. He just makes the game look...so...damn...easy. The ball looks like a grapefruit in his hands—just wait for the punch.

Blake may just be the most imposing, exciting big man in Los Angeles, ever since Shaq. Sure the Lake Show are glad to have Bynum back on the block but you know they'd love to have Blake deep down in the paint.

Night after night, Griffin re-designs the paint with his dunks. He cuts down frontcourt trees like a lumberjack. In fact as beautiful as Chick Hearn's coined phrase is, Blake makes this art form look so powerful yet beautiful that it should be renamed in his honor. His damaging dunks are like dynamite. SLAM knows this.

Sure there's still no one quite like the Magic's Dwight but just look back at what Blake had in his bag of tricks for last year's Slam Dunk contest in front of his home crowd at STAPLES. From stopping automobiles in their path, having the belief to fly,  channeling Vince Carter all whilst putting an end to Howard's big man, Goliath dunk memories and 'David' Nate Robinson's reign.

Every game, Blake punishes players with his post up, poster producing, power plays. From Tim Duncan to Timofey Mozgov (and then taking the elevator even higher this year for Kendrick Perkins) and Amar'e Stoudemire to Tiago Splitter everybody can get it. In fact the leagues best San Antonio and the most-improved New York have been punished the most, (still everybody has) with countless STAT stuffing, splitting dunks.

Now how about that dunk? It has made the rounds on the Youtube top 10's last season, a regular feature for Blake. You know the one we're talking about. The opposition really doesn't, and didn't, matter as Blake saw red, sprinting and running the floor like a bull. He spun, floated like a butterfly, then dropped the hammer on a dunk that stung like a bee. Muhammad likes to rhyme, and Blake's game is like poetry. He's so agile, whereas all who try and break him down are merely fragile. Side-stepping back down court like Ali, that was no rookie confidence (and now as a sophomore, he's so much more).

He believes he's the greatest. It almost looked like this rabid talent was foaming at the mouth, but
that was just his gum-shield. He's not the one that needs protection. Timeout. Yet another countless, timeless Blake dunk as this Griffin furthers his young legend. Another frozen moment in the time of NBA history. Where amazing, aerial, acrobatics happen.

Who can guard this guy? Not many. Sorry Dwight, maybe joining the Los Angeles Lakers is the only way you can get close to him. All the defenders can do is stand-around and look in freeze-frame. Even the leagues best just look like the rest. From action replays, to poster and lap-top wallpapers worldwide, their humiliation is broadcast, but nobody's looking at them, their looking at B. Can't you see?

Shaquille O'Neal, Kevin Garnett, Dwight Howard, Darryl Dawkins, Vince Carter, Shawn Kemp in his prime, Blake is a hybrid of them all, this monster talent surely was crafted in a laboratory, that's why he was gone for 12 months in his real Rookie year. Sure he was a 'Naismith College Player of the Year', 'Oscar Robertson Trophy' and the 'John Wooden Award' winning stud in college, but these are the big leagues and he's no schoolboy.

No one with all this power usually has the grace Blake has. His game is eloquent, he can switch it up from monster Shaq-like power to the athletic beauty of a guard. From alley-oops that are going to turn Eric Bledsoe into a star and Chris Paul into the next Magic Point Guard in L.A. It's showtime.

From tip-in's to off-balance impossible dunks like the one against Portland, Griffin is making everything look so easy. The only hard thing is to try and couple all his plays into weekly "Top-Tens." He needs a separate category for himself and as for the rest of the league, forget about it.

Still, of course the critics have something to say, "he's this," "he's not that." but he really is. Blake is more than dunks, and critics even called Shaq one dimensional but that didn't stop him from cutting a few championship shapes. Besides, Charles Barkley was right, "just wait 'till his game comes together," He's only young and you best believe this mound of rebound legend knows the big man's game more than anybody. He's more then qualified to speak on Griffin's graduating game

Everyone in the league wants a 20 and 10 big man, well Blake is 21.6 and 11.20 and he isn't even a centre. The Clips still have DeAndre Jordan, Chris Paul, Caron Butler, Chauncey Billups and Mo Williams for that playoff and contention matter. Blake is the center of attention however, and the Clippers are stunning their neighbours and former champion Lakers, along with the rest of the league.

With career numbers like 47 points and 14 rebounds, how is this point making, rebound grabbing man not a monster? Critics can't deny him. They should give him the love like they've finally given Minnesota's Kevin because Blake could go for 30-30 one day two. Sure he isn't much of a postgame quotable, but this is a league where people games do the talking.

The undeniable 'Rookie Of the Year', could soon go for MVP. He shadows the opposition. Sure, sure he should have been a sophomore, last year but his only slump came with the injury last year. Now is his time and he's making up for lost pine. No more suit and tie or bench days for Blake. No wonder he's not chilling, showing he can play with the smartest in the league and bench press even the most imposing, dominant, veteran big men.

He's was the first rook since Allen Iverson to have two 40+ games and you know what that guy did the league. There's more to come as well as Blake looks to change the game and answer the call. Who needs a new version of 'NBA Jam', when you've got the real thing on demand via the Internet?

Blake's on fire and beyond the excitement, hoopla and dunks his talent burns deep. Laker die-hard couldn't even fan his flames, Griffin is making it legitimate for Los Angeles to have two franchises and as for the post-locked out league, he's saving it and bringing the fans back.

Now that's a superhero we can all marvel at. A hulking talent that's turning the Clippers green with profit. Now only a creature on a whole other, out of this world level could do that.