[4] Many colleges recruited him, but Blake stayed at home and chose to attend Saint Joseph's for head coach Jim Boyle.
[1] As he expected, Blake contributed right away for the Hawks, amassing a then-school single season record 95 blocks and being named to the All-Atlantic 10 Conference Rookie Team.
After individual workouts with the Chicago Bulls and Houston Rockets, neither of which resulted in a regular-season contract, he began playing in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) with the Charleston Gunners.
[1] When that team went bankrupt, Blake moved back to the United States and re-joined the CBA for the Wichita Falls Texans.
[1] With the Texans, he became a key player in helping to lead the team to the first professional basketball championship in the state of Texas' history.
[4] Even though the Texans finished second to the Tulsa Fast Breakers in the Western Division during the regular season, they went on a hot streak down the stretch into the playoffs.
Over the next nine years, he had stints in Cyprus, Belgium, Finland, Switzerland, Argentina, and for the Chicago Rockers back in the CBA.