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Detroit Pistons’ Blake Griffin is among the NBA elite

Blake Griffin is doing something that hasn’t been done in the NBA for 20 years and he keeps improving his game.

The Detroit Pistons forward is in the same breath as Larry Bird. They are the only players to average 21.9 points, 9 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game during their NBA careers (credit Bleacher Report’s Andy Bailey for pointing this out).

Even more so, Griffin is 33rd All-Time in career box plus-minus (4.0) and has a career net rating of +7.5, which Bailey said is better than Kevin Durant.