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Exclusive: Getting Emojinal With Blake Griffin

Name: Getting Emojinal With Blake Griffin
Uploaded: 2015-09-01T23:51:49Z
Duration: 1 min 44 s
Description: Getting Emojinal With Blake Griffin

Blake Griffin enjoys using emojis. Watch him answer some questions using only emoji flash cards.

By Khalil Garriott

2 min readPublished on 02/20/2017 · 4:48 PM UTC

Blake's future's so bright, he's gotta wear shades
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If you're a sports fan, you had to be buried under a rock if you didn’t catch a bit of the DeAndre Jordan situation in July. As a refresher, the free-agent Los Angeles Clippers center agreed to sign with the Dallas Mavericks ... then reversed course. He re-signed with the Clippers, in the process setting off an emoji saga for the ages.

When All-Star forward Blake Griffin got wind of Jordan’s potential change of heart, he quickly booked a trip from Los Angeles to Jordan's home in Houston to help persuade him to return to the Clippers. The social media-savvy Griffin told the world of his plans with a simple tweet:

This emoji-driven bomb naturally spread like wildfire. Basketball media and fans all understood what Griffin's tweet meant, and some other NBA players joined the fun:

Anyways, it all turned out beautifully in the end (for the Clips; not so much for the Mavs).

It got us thinking: Griffin obviously has a gift when it comes to the art of emoji communication (and it is an art). So we decided to ask him some questions — and you guessed it — he had to answer only in emojis. Enjoy, and be sure to follow him on Twitter and Instagram.

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Getting Emojinal With Blake Griffin

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