Watch Jamal Crawford’s through-the-legs lob to Blake Griffin

In the fourth quarter against Milwaukee on Wednesday, the Clippers’ Blake Griffin and Jamal Crawford found themselves on a fast break with no defenders near, so Crawford decided to get a bit fancy.

As he got to the basket, he went airborne, flipping the ball through his legs then over his shoulder to a trailing Griffin, who used a windmill dunk to slam it home.

It was a stunning sequence, one that even Crawford said deserves an award.

“I think we could push that for an ESPY,� he said.

Crawford said that he even surprised himself with that move.

“I honestly didn’t know what I was going to do -- I just saw that we had a whole court and I had the best jumper in the world right there, might as well get creative,� he said.

Creative he got, so much so that Griffin didn’t even know that was going on.

“I honestly had no idea what he was going to do,� Griffin said. “I thought he was going to throw it off the backboard, you know, normally in a situation like that, you’re looking at each other like, what are you going to do? ... but he didn’t even look back, so I was just kind of stuck out there, then I saw him do his little between the legs, and he’s done that before in practice, so, I just tried to finish it.�

After Crawford released the ball, he was just hoping that Griffin would find it.

“When I threw it, I was like, ‘Please just dunk it. I don’t want coach mad at me,’ � Crawford said. “He caught it and took it to a whole ‘nother level.�

The play is already being hailed as the best lob-dunk sequence of the year.
Crawford said that LeBron James tweeted him, saying that he and Dwyane Wade want to replicate the move.

“It’ll take on a life of its own,� Crawford said.