Today it was announced that the first round pick in the NBA draft last year, the Clipper's Blake Griffin, will miss the remainder of the season with a knee injury. Griffin never took the court this season after messing up his knee in the final preseason game in October. Griffin's rookie season will have to hold off until next year and while injuries happen, you have to wonder if a player who's game is so built around power will be the same coming back. Griffin is just another casualty in a long line of potential stars who have succumbed to The Clipper Curse. Time and time again the Clips have watched a guy crash and burn under their watch. No one has ever summed up the Curse better than the great Bill Simmons did last June in an open letter to Blake Griffin. On paper it's a bit eery that Simmons called this so perfectly. But really, it wasn't much of a prediction. The smart money was on Grffin blowing a knee in his first two years in the league. I feel bad for the guy. He is, by all accounts, a stand up character whose only mistake was getting drafted by a cursed franchise.
Looking back, Griffin should have done anything and everything to keep the Clippers from drafting him. Were I his agent I would have advised him to show up to his predraft interviews in a dress and tell the Clips he would no longer answer to anything except Juwanna Mann. Maybe that would have forced the Clippers to draft another person and maybe Griffin would be enjoying a Rookie of the Year campaign as we speak. As it is, the Clipper Curse strikes again and it's only a matter of time until it takes another victim.
-BG
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