I mean, seriously? It's a little premature

To date, Griffin has 295, or 43.45%, of the votes, more than twice the votes for power balance as the second-place finisher Danny Manning(121 votes, or 17.8%). Brand has 105 votes, or 15.4%. Granted, the sample was a small slice of fan representation — 680 votes in all to date — and certainly favors the here-and-now and the rapidly increasing buzz of all-things Griffin.

Also receiving measures of consideration were Michael Cage, Marques Johnson, Ron Harper, Eric Piatkowski and Loy Vaught.

Griffin teammate Jarron Collins, a local who grew up going to Clippers games, all but scoffed at the question, rejecting it as rather hasty. He is a major Griffin fan, but …

"I mean, seriously? It's a little premature," Collins said last week just before his second 10-day contract with the team expired. "He is a very talented player, obviously. The path that he is on — the walking double-double — he's on that path to being a perennial All-Star and those type of things.

"But let's not put the cart in front of the horse quite yet. It's a long ways. With his work ethic, he'll strive to get those goals and those accolades and those things that come with the amount of success and productivity.

"To label him the best Clipper ever is a little premature." Welcome to energy4balance.com.