According to ESPNLA.com, Blake Griffin has just won the first unanimous Rookie of the Year since David Robinson.

Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin was named the Rookie of the Year on Wednesday after a landslide vote, becoming the NBA’s first unanimous choice for the award in 21 years.

Griffin received every first-place vote from a panel of 118 media members, easily outdistancing Washington’s John Wall. The 6-foot-10 forward is the first to win it unanimously since San Antonio’s David Robinson in 1990, and just the third unanimous choice in NBA history after Ralph Sampson in 1984.  More...

If you are reading this, they are gone. The website FreeDarko shut down operations and one last note has been left and it might as well have been titled “Croatoan.” The last writers dispersing and assimilating into the more atavistic forms of sports journalism in the blogosphere.  More...