{"id":6365,"date":"2011-05-05T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6365"},"modified":"2011-05-05T13:37:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T17:37:58","slug":"griffin-wins-roy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6365","title":{"rendered":"Griffin Wins ROY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014<strong> Blake Griffin<\/strong> played his entire rookie season like a man making up for lost time.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the Los Angeles Clippers\u2019 dynamic dunker has been named the league\u2019s top rookie in a landslide, he\u2019s already thinking about ways to improve on a delayed NBA debut that was well worth the wait.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Griffin<\/strong> accepted the Rookie of the Year award on Wednesday, becoming the NBA\u2019s first unanimous choice for the award in 21 years.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 1 overall draft pick out of Oklahoma in 2009 missed all of the 2009-10 season after breaking his kneecap in the Clippers\u2019 final preseason game. But <strong>Griffin<\/strong> returned with one of the most impressive debut campaigns in a generation. <strong>Griffin<\/strong> frequently thought back to that season in limbo while picking up his award during a party at the Clippers\u2019 training complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Blake Griffin played his entire rookie season like a man making up for lost time. Now that the Los Angeles Clippers\u2019 dynamic dunker has been named the league\u2019s top rookie in a landslide, he\u2019s already thinking about ways to improve on a delayed NBA debut that was well worth the wait. Griffin [&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-6365","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\/6365","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=6365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}