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Winning 'Blake of the Year' carries a performance curse for professional athletes
Everything sort of went downhill after last year's Blake of the Year. I had a rough year fellas, and I think it started with those ping pong balls. Now I can't even look at a ping pong ball without thinking of the devastating loss... This kind of begs the question: is there a Blake of the Year curse?
Griffin's numbers and role did decline significantly with the Nets following his previous win, though attributing it to a podcast award is subjective.