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Blake Griffin evolves on hero's journey

Updated: January 23, 2012, 3:22 PM ET
By Kevin Arnovitz | Special to ESPNLosAngeles.com
Before he made Mozgov a verb and before the nightly media scrum around his locker swelled to a pyramidal mass, Blake Griffin was contemplating what it would mean to be another in a procession of draft busts. He was killing time at movie theaters on Los Angeles' Westside between rehab sessions on his left knee, cursing the snarl of traffic in his new hometown and basically managing his misery.

Over the spring and summer of 2010, Griffin's patellar tendon became stronger and he gradually ...

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