NBA.com has posted the Top Ten Plays for the week ending on Thursday, April 5. Click here to watch the video. (The NBA won’t let me embed the video here. Thanks a lot, David Stern.)

Blake Griffin took top honors with a dunk over Pau Gasol, but not the one featured here recently; that one was only good enough for number eight.

My take: Brandon Jennings’ circus layup deserved better than ninth, and Chris Paul’s right-handed-between-the-legs-and-somehow-back-to-the-right-hand-dribble on the fast break was robbed when it was pegged for seventh. In the words of John McEnroe, you cannot be serious.

In fact, CP3′s move was so raw that I considered buying this pair of shoes:

Meanwhile, I’m willing to chop off a few toes for these (why no size 17, Nike?):

I’ve never been huge on the Air Max line, but I loved these shoes when they first came out and were worn by a non-broke, non-coaching Dennis Rodman. This new version is the bee’s knees and is hereby officially approved by It Goes to XI.