Blake Austin Griffin (born March 16, 1989) is an American basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association. Griffin was selected first overall in the 2009 NBA Draft.

Blake Griffin played college basketball for the Oklahoma Sooners (Oklahoma Sooners mens basketball). He was named the Associated Press (Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year), the John Wooden Award, the Naismith Award (Naismith College Player of the Year) and the Sporting News player of the year for the 2008-09 college basketball season.

When combined with Sam Bradfords Heisman Trophy, Oklahoma (Oklahoma Sooners) became the second school to have a top winner in both basketball and football in the same year (Gary Beban won the Heisman Trophy and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar won the USBWA "Player of the Year" award in 1968 for UCLA).