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Off-season work gives Cippers' Blake Griffin new focus

LOS ANGELES – Blake Griffin grappled with MMA star Donald Cerrone. He sprinted with Olympian Carmelita Jeter. He worked with shooting coach Bob Thate.

He drilled. He practiced. He worked. He improved.

But it didn’t stop there. There were private sessions and quiet moments with former NFL coach Tony Dungy, movie director and screenwriter Judd Apatow and a Seal Team Six member-turned-author that have him operating in a totally different way.

Less Netflix. Less Comedy Central. More thinking.

“I never thought I was much of a reader until I forced myself to get into it,” Griffin said.