Blake Griffin Healthy and Excited About Young, Hungry Clippers

Filed under: Clippers, Kings, NBA Preseason

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Blake Griffin isn't the expressive type.

The Clippers rookie forward is a steady communicator -- polite and well-spoken, but far from dynamic. So when he said before Thursday's win over the Kings at Arco Arena that he was ecstatic to be playing again after a stress fracture in his left kneecap kept him out all of last season, you simply had to trust he was telling the truth.

"I'm definitely more excited (now), and I was extremely excited last year," Griffin had said so stoically. "Sitting out has made me extremely hungry. It makes you realize how much you love the game and how much you miss it."

No need to talk about it when simply doing it is so much easier, though. And Griffin made it look remarkably easy in the Clippers' 120-88 rout of the Kings.

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