Blake Griffin saw an open lane in the third quarter of Game Clippers' against Oklahoma City on Monday. He charged into the basket. Kendrick Perkins Center Thunder replied boldly put his body in front of oncoming freight train.
Griffin raised, and his face pressed against Perkins came before the body Griffin, like a child sticking his face to the window.
DUNK.
A few moments later, Twitterverse went crazy. So was sold out crowd at Staples Center. So were his teammates Griffin.
Clippers center DeAndre Jordan immediately hugged Griffin was such force that he practically knocked the wind out of his teammate. That was when Griffin said he knew something spectacular had occurred.
"By the crowd's reaction you can kind of gauge how it was," he said. "My second gauge is DJ's reaction.
"He came up and like arm-locked me. I couldn't breathe. I had to like pull him off."
Said Jordan: "I was shocked. I didn't know what to do, so I just grabbed him. ... I feel like I dunked it."
Said Clippers guard Chris Paul: "That's one of the most amazing things I've ever seen."
The only player who wasn't in awe was Perkins, who fouled Griffin on the dunk. The Clippers star then went to the free-throw-line and converted the three-point play.
Sitting morosely by his locker after the Clippers' 112-100 win, Perkins acknowledged that Griffin got the better of him.
"It happens," he said. "At the end of the day, if you're a shot-blocker you're going to get dunked on. It was a great play he made. Obviously, I wish I wasn't in it."
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