{"id":3794,"date":"2011-02-22T09:14:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T14:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=3794"},"modified":"2011-02-22T09:14:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T14:14:36","slug":"los-angeles-clippers-blake-griffin-leaps-car-to-win-dunk-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=3794","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Clippers&#8217; Blake Griffin Leaps Car To Win Dunk Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Blake Griffin<\/strong> leaped over a car and threw down a two-handed dunk to the accompaniment of a gospel choir, winning the Slam Dunk contest in iconic style before his hometown fans on All-Star Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Clippers rookie caught a pass out of the sunroof from teammate <strong>Baron Davis<\/strong> and easily cleared the hood while the Crenshaw Select Choir sang <em>&#8220;I Believe I Can Fly&#8221;<\/em> at midcourt.<\/p>\n<p>The inventive slam drove home the obvious point of the All-Star weekend&#8217;s silly Saturday: <strong>Griffin<\/strong> has both the raw athleticism and the showtime flair to be the NBA&#8217;s next big star.<\/p>\n<p>Finalist <strong>Javale McGee<\/strong> of Washington and Toronto&#8217;s <strong>DeMar DeRozan<\/strong> didn&#8217;t stand a chance despite their own inventive dunks at Staples Center.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3-Point Shootout<\/strong><br \/>\nMiami&#8217;s <strong>James Jones<\/strong> held off Boston teammates <strong>Paul Pierce<\/strong> and <strong>Ray Allen<\/strong> to win his first 3-point shootout at All-Star Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blake Griffin leaped over a car and threw down a two-handed dunk to the accompaniment of a gospel choir, winning the Slam Dunk contest in iconic style before his hometown fans on All-Star Saturday. The Los Angeles Clippers rookie caught a pass out of the sunroof from teammate Baron Davis and easily cleared the hood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}