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LOS ANGELES – Blake Griffin leaped over a car and threw downbound a two-handed douse to the accompaniment of a gospel choir, success the shut douse oppose in iconic style before his hometown fans on All-Star Saturday.

The Los Angeles Clippers' rookie caught a transfer discover of the sunroof from associate noble solon and easily unwooded the 2011 Kia Optima's cowl patch the Crenshaw Select Choir sang "I Believe I Can Fly" at midcourt.

The inventive shut drove bag the manifest point of the All-Star weekend's confused Saturday: Griffin has both the raw vigor and the showtime flair to be the NBA's incoming big star.

With an entire antiquity solidly behindhand Griffin, finalist Javale McGee of Washington and Toronto's DeMar DeRozan rattling didn't defence a quantity despite their possess fictive dunks at Staples Center.

Earlier, Miami's saint Jones held soured Beantown teammates Apostle Pierce and Ray Allen to get his prototypal 3-point shootout, and Golden State's Stephen Curry won the Skills Challenge.

But All-Star Sat was a background for Griffin, who started the oppose with an irresistibly 360-degree aerobatics douse before converting a bounce transfer soured the lateral of the backboard in the prototypal round.

The prototypal rookie All-Star in octad eld then brought backwards an impossibly difficult selection with his prototypal douse of the final, sticking his arm into the band and hanging from it by his elbow, meet as Vince Carter did patch success the 2000 contest.

And when fans saw the car dynamical discover of the arena tunnel, this oppose already seemed to be over.

Griffin is in the midst of the busiest All-Star weekend in the NBA's past history. He scored 14 points in the Rookie Challenge, and he stayed in the douse oppose even after effort chosen for the West unit in Sunday's main event.

The nervy from Oklahoma is averaging 22.8 points and 12.6 rebounds as the strong rookie of the assemblage selection for the Clippers, but he's best famous around the concern for his staggering dunking skills, combine the vine of a protect with a center's raw strength.

All quaternary dunkers important themselves in Hollywood, display planning and conception in what's sometimes a sloppy event — but Griffin was the overwhelming selection for nearly every All-Star gathered at Staples Center, and he didn't disappoint.

After DeRozan opened the oppose by getting a transfer soured the backboard and putting it between his legs for a disentangle one-handed jam, Serge Ibaka took the court amid individual banners for NBA continent and pronto threw downbound a Dr. J-style long-jump douse from the free intercommunicate line.

McGee then got creative, ordering a ordinal basket accepted attached to a forklift and placed right incoming to the hoop. After individual misses, he managed to intercommunicate downbound a left-handed douse patch tossing the another ball soured the backboard to himself for a right-handed jam, earning a amend 50.

After individual misses on his ordinal attempt, Griffin caught a transfer soured the lateral of the backboard from solon for a one-handed wad that was sufficiency to send him into the ordinal round.

McGee joined him after dunking threesome balls on the same leap, slapping bag a transfer for the third jam. DeRozan couldn't attain the test ammo despite an impressive ordinal douse in which he threw a transfer to himself soured the backboard for a windmill reverse jam.

After Griffin's ginglymus douse in the final, McGee floated underneath the edge and threw downbound an impossibly twisting wad from the another side.

That's when Griffin pronounceable discover his wheels.

McGee prefabricated another difficult douse in his test attempt, but Griffin received 68 percent of the follower voting that determines the test result.

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