The Clippers became nervous when they realized Blake Griffin was planning to dunk over a car during Saturday night's slam dunk contest.

"I noticed when I went in for my rehearsal Thursday night, everybody from the Clippers was there. All our upper management and then I realized, everybody is kind of nervous about this," Griffin said. "So I jumped over it and I kind of looked at them and they are like, 'All right, you can do it.' I understand why, but I guess they don't trust me enough."

Griffin missed all of last season with a broken kneecap.

During the team's long road trip leading up to the All-Star break, Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro asked Griffin what he was planning for the dunk contest.

"He already knew what I was going to do, so I just played dumb and acted like, 'I don't know yet, man, I don't know,' " Griffin said.