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Who Would You Save?

As I mentioned earlier this week, in a post about the Lakers' thrashing of the Cavaliers, TV has finally aired a show ridiculing sports analysis, the Onion Sportsdome. For those of you who still have not seen it, you can view some of the clips here. One of my personal favorites from the pilot episode was a clip entitled "Who Would You Kill?"

In the segment, 'analysts' took turns explaining which pro-athletes they would kill and how. Although it was very humorous, I am not 'evil' enough to attempt to recreate it. Instead, I hope to offer my own segment, an optomistic flip of the Onion's clip, self-entitled "Who Would You Save?". In my hopefully weekly post of this sort, I will offer up a player accross sports, who I believe should deserve either more credit, or a change of scenery.

Tonight, we will start off with "rookie" sensation Blake Griffin ("rookie" because he spent his first season on the injured reserve list). Although he may be lighting up the highlight reel, and has become a frequent member of the Sportcenter's Top 10 plays, with plays like this:


A more common position than dunking for Griffin lately, is possibly this picture: Head in Hands, disappointed that the Clippers are just so bad, or he may be accepting his fate (use your imagination). Either way, the man who would easily be a star on any NBA team, instead is forced to spend his nights playing for the small crouds that are irregular in Staples Center during Lakers games. As well as producing amazing dunks, Griffin leads the team with almost a 13 rebound average, and astonishingly averages a double-double.

So please, if you are an NBA fan, I ask that you would support saving Mr. Griffin, before his talents become more and more attractive to the Harlem Globetrotters. Imagine the star-studded Miami Heat, with the addition of Blake. Not only would the Heatles logo be completed, but maybe he would provide the big man talent, that has seemingly been missing so far this season in Miami. Yet, although the Heat are my fantasy team for Griffin, maybe he would be better off on a larger stage such as the Utah Jazz, who lack the flash of any player other than Deron Williams, and Griffin would certainly give them the boost which may have made them a true contender for one of the top spots in the West this year (believe me, I am not a fan of the Jazz).

Which ever team the switch is made to, I believe Griffin truly deserves the saving. I mean, more people deserve to be able to see his antics in person:

No, this isn't fake.
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