Blake Griffin: Dunk Machine – iPad Extras of the Week

There is food porn, which has its own Wiki page , guitar porn, apartment porn and, of course, porn porn.

Then there is this porn. Blake Griffin dunk porn.

The Clippers’ rookie is the subject of Chris Ballard’s entertaining profile in this week’s iPad issue.  Ballard, the author of the artfully crafted “Art of a Beautiful Game”, eschews the more conventional profile route and seeks out the small nation of ballers, scrubs and stars alike, who have been posterized by Griffin, among them Kevin Love, Manu Ginobili, Anthony Tolliver (who shares a particularly amusing tale of his personal posterization) and, of course, the Knicks’ Timofey Mozgov, who carries upon his shoulders this everlasting sorrow.  Even the generally laconic Griffin can’t help but delight in his oeuvre.  Supplementing the piece are additional video clips of Griffin’s signature dunks and a podcast with Richard Deitsch that offers the excellent story behind an excellent story.

Deitsch double dips this week, yakking with Peter King about his cover story on NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, one of several revealing interviews in this week’s iPad.  Video analysis of the Super Bowl from Cris Collinsworth, Boomer Esiason and Phil Simms is included in the issue.  And in addition to profiling standout Washington guard Isaiah Thomas, college basketball writer Pablo S. Torre, in an iPad exclusive, interviews Thomas’s namesake, the NBA Hall of Fame guard who has been closely following the arc of the 21-year-old’s career.

Next week will offer plenty in the way of the Super Bowl, in addition to a look ahead to next season.  Maybe even some early spring training talk.  And in two weeks: the inaugural SI Swimsuit iPad edition.

- Chris Stone