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Blake Superior

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Blake Griffin with the redefinition of "posterizing":



His moves are straight thuggish, but then you see something like this and you realize there's depth there. Layers, like an onion...an onion that regularly dunks on 7-foot-tall Lakers.



Is there anything funnier than a man doing lunges?
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