When they were together with the Clippers, Griffin’s and Jordan’s high-flying gifts helped coin the nickname “Lob City.” It seemed like every night, the two close teammates were trying to one-up each other with a dunk spectacle. On this occasion, Griffin’s vicious dunk on Boston’s Humphries from the outer paint circle immediately put Jordan in a state of disbelief. He has his hands up over his head nearly the moment he sees Griffin rise toward the rim. Griffin doing that for Jordan, a dunk aficionado, was usually very amusing.

Gasol was one of the greatest big men of the modern era, a true anchor to two Lakers championship teams. Seeing Gasol ever get humbled by a better athlete was a very rare occasion during his Hall of Fame career. But going against someone as springy as Griffin tends to open the door to exceptions.

It takes a lot for me to be impressed by a dunk outside of a game context. It has to be creative. It has to have flair. It most definitely has to have a lot of “air,” if you know. Griffin’s dunk over a Kia sedan that won him the 2011 dunk contest certainly fits these parameters.

Ibaka was an All-NBA caliber defender during his days in the league; he was legitimately one of the more feared rim protectors. That vaunted reputation appears to have just acted as a challenge for Griffin on this wild hammer dunk.

Every famous Griffin dunk obviously required a tremendous amount of skill and natural ability. But running with the ball in transition, forcing Gallinari to take the strong shoulder, and then spinning into a tomahawk dunk is almost unfathomable skill-wise. I don’t think it’s the “best” dunk of Griffin’s career, but it might have been the most impressive to execute.

By the time Griffin humiliated Perkins with one of the best dunks we’ve ever seen, the Clippers were already demolishing the Thunder. That’s what makes Perkins’ jump into Griffin as he gets a wide-open bounce pass near the rim so funny to me. What did he think was going to happen? Was a hard foul really going to impede his progress? Like so many times in his career, Griffin was ready to put someone on a highlight reel the moment he saw the passing seam open.

To this day, off the top of my head, I cannot think of a better live, in-game dunk than Griffin jumping straight over a 7-foot-1 Mozgov to throw the ball in. Griffin’s athleticism was always off the charts, but this particular dunk still always takes my breath away. It was so vicious that the somewhat unknown Mozgov almost became a household name expressly because Griffin put him on an all-time poster. Also, poor Knicks.