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1、Everyone knows what the NBA’s latest clipper（快马）Blake Griffin is capable of doing on the court, or at the hoop（篮筐）. After all, it’s not every day you see a basketball player jump over a car and score a slam dunk（大灌篮）. Griffin’s amazing performance won the 22-year-old the 2011 Slam Dunk Contest. Griffin has been turning heads all season with his dunking ability. As a rookie（新秀）with the Los Angeles Clippers. Griffin is a hard worker and the team’s new hope. There’s no doubt that Griffin is on his way to a rising NBA career. But where did it all begin? Griffin抯 has loved basketball ever since he was a kid. He grew up watching the NBA and practicing how to dunk, mastering this skill at just 13 years old. Griffin抯 passion for basketball runs in the family. His father was his coach in high school, and his older brother Taylor is also a professional player. Griffin says being a coach抯 son helped him grow professionally. 揑 always watched basketball with my dad and he taught me the right way to play. I kind of picked up the game through him,?he told NBA online. Griffin started showing some serious basketball ability at his high school in Oklahoma, where he won state titles in each of his four years. ?It wasn抰 long before many of Griffin抯 peers were asking for his autograph. 揂 girl once came up to me with a rubber duck and was like, 慦ill you sign this??So I signed the top of it and gave it back to her,?Griffin told Sports Illustrated magazine. After high school, Griffin went on to become a star basketball player at university. It was there that he earned the nickname “The Terminator（终结者）” for his fury（火爆）during games. Despite his fierce on-court personality, Griffin says he’s really just a normal, nice guy. “A lot of people are surprised at how laid-back（放松的）I am. I’m more soft-spoken（温和的）off the court. Out on the court, they see somebody who’s intense and all that. But I like to hang out to have fun and make jokes and laugh,” he told NBA online. 51.? From the