Blake Griffin donating Kia to benefit charity

May 5, 2011 6:22 PM PT

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There is another reason to catch newly minted rookie of the year Blake Griffin tonight on ‘Conan’ on TBS.

Remember the Kia sedan that Griffin jumped over to win the Slam Dunk Contest during All-Star weekend?

The Clippers’ Griffin is going to announce on Conan O’Brien’s show that he will be donating the car for a charity auction on AutoTrader.com with proceeds benefiting Stand Up To Cancer. Griffin dedicated the All-Star weekend to his close friend Wilson Holloway, who died after a three-year fight with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Holloway died a few days before All-Star weekend and Griffin was one of the pallbearers at his funeral back home in Oklahoma

‘I am honored to memorialize Wilson’s legacy by helping raise funds for cancer research,’ Griffin said in a statement. ‘Wilson was an inspiration to everybody who knew him, and a very dear friend and teammate.’

The auction started Thursday at 6 p.m. and runs through 6 p.m. on May 15. Additionally, Stand Up To Cancer has a fund-raising site called: Team Blake: In Honor of My Friend Wilson Holloway. The web address is www.su2c.org/BlakeDunk.

--Lisa Dillman

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Lisa Dillman

Lisa Dillman is a former sports reporter for the Los Angeles Times; she left in 2016. She has covered the Kings, the Ducks, the Clippers, professional tennis, soccer and Olympic sports at five Summer Games and two Winter Games for the newspaper since 1992.