Player Wives & Girlfriends

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The Clippers have become LA's favorite team this season, finally breaking free from the shadow cast by the Lakers. Don't get me wrong, Lob City was very popular last year, but this team seems like a much more legit title contender this season. And it certainly helps that Kobe's squad is floundering around .500 and just lost big man Gasol for an extended duration. As Celtic's fans, this is one of the few bright spots this year. But back to the Clippers, who are lead by Chris Paul. When he became injured, third year guard Eric Bledsoe was inserted into the starting lineup and he definitely hasn't disappointed.

Bledsoe was a one-and-done collegiate, attending the University of Kentucky in 2009-10. Even though he was just there for one season, he was dogged by controversy even before he started school. The NCAA questioned his eligibility, claiming that his high school grades had been manipulated. Although they ultimately concluded something didn't quite add up, they allowed Bledsoe to go to Kentucky and play basketball for coach John Calipari. It should come as no surprise that not everything was on the up and up, as scandal has followed Calipari for most of his coaching career. After a very successful 35-3 season by the Wildcats, Bledsoe rode that momentum to a first round selection in the NBA draft. He made the NBA All-Rookie Second Team, but was moved to the bench his second year with the arrival of Chris Paul. Clearly he didn't not give up, and is finally being rewarded for his perseverance.

As far as we can tell, Eric Bledsoe is not married, although he does have a daughter. Eric Bledsoe's girlfriend Morgan gave birth to their child in 2011. Outside of the fact they have a daughter, there's really not much we can find on Morgan. She appears to hail from Birmingham, Alabama, which is where Bledsoe grew up as well. Connecting the dots, it would reason to say they've been together for a while but that's just purely speculation there of course. If we find out anything else, we'll report back.

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Looks like posters aren't the only thing that Blake Griffin is dominating right now. He is also killing it on the dating scene, with the most recent example of this being Blake Griffin's girlfriend Daniella Grace.

Griffin and Grace were first spotted together the first weekend of December. They were out in Los Angeles celebrating the birthday of Griffin's teammate Eric Bledsoe. Amazingly the paparazzi respected his wishes to not have pictures taken of them together. However we can somewhat confirm this as earlier that day Grace was seen at the Clippers game. The photo included the hashtag #thanksforthetixblake. [quick side rant here - Can we relax with the hashtags? Seriously, who would ever use that one again? It's called sentences people... just keep it to sentences. Not everything can "trend".]

Grace is a model... at least as far as we can tell. Certainly lots of pictures with her posing and various stages of undress. She also recently finished filming a movie entitled Sand Castles. She describes herself as a "life enthusiast" and "coffee" addict. Well aren't we all. There's a lot we aren't sure about Grace, but we are very confident that she's smoking hot.

With the Clippers off to a hot start, there is a lot of attention being drawn to them and their stars, with Griffin being no exception to that. As long as Lob City keeps firing, Blake will keep throwing it down on opponents and having a love life any guy would be envious of. But for now it's seems he's off the market, and he made a great choice this time if we do say so ourselves.

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With Chris Paul in tow and an exciting start to Lob City's 2011-2012 season, media presence has increased around the once irrelevant Los Angeles Clippers. Considering the relative lack of coverage around the Clip last year, we're not shocked to hear that Blake Griffin was seen hugging model, and rumored girlfriend Sabrina Maserati after their last home game.
According to Terez Owens who broke the story, Maserati is a model signed to Wilhelmina in Miami where she was born and raised. A graduate of Florida Atlantic University, Maserati is a former Orlando Magic dancer, who is now reportedly living and working in Los Angeles for Republic Records. Her Twitter account confirms as her bio says, "Label Marketing Representative for @RepublicRecords & Part-time Model." What is somewhat confusing against TO's report is that from her Twitter timeline, she's clearly a Miami Heat fan, going against both her reported boyfriend and the team she used to dance for. She does post a picture of her courtside at one of the Lakers - Clippers preseason game, with the #Griffin keyword in her tweet.
Our conclusion: inconclusive. While it's absolutely no stretch to imagine that Blake Griffin is dating a smokeshow model, it's unclear if the two are actually together.