Blake Griffin's evolution has been fast"I set a goal to be an All-Star this year," Griffin reveals. "I know that's an extremely high goal for your first year, so thankfully it happened.
"But I'm never going to be afraid to set high goals because they might not happen.
"When I look in the future, I want to set extremely high goals. I think that's important. Because the higher you set your goals, the more motivation you have and the harder you work."Davis can pinpoint the game when everything seemed to take off.
"For me, it was the New York game [on Nov. 20]," he said, "when I saw him take the challenge against [Amare] Stoudemire and basically just put on a hell of a performance. From that point I just sort of realized, he's really special. This is not normal."Griffin went to a local department store to buy some extra boxer shorts before the team's long road trip at the beginning of February.
"All of a sudden, I look around and people are staring at me," he said. "They were like taking pictures of me buying Calvin Klein boxer shorts. I'm pretty sure I laughed about it. But it was kinda weird."
It was at this moment Griffin realized the world around him had forever changed."I don't want people to think I've changed. People change naturally over time and that's fine, but I don't want to change who I am as a person. I want to be the exact same person that I've been."
Ramona Shelburne, ESPN Los Angeles
Kaman, Davis, Del Negro and Joakim Noah all have something to say about Blake.
It's a relatively long article, but well worth the read.
