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The Grizzlies and forward Chandler Parsons have agree to spend some time apart. Chris Herrington mulls over the biggest questions about the past, present, and future of this on-the-rocks partnership.
The young players showed some late fight, but Mike Conley and Marc Gasol sat the entire fourth quarter as the Grizzlies lost 108-88 in San Antonio.
Wayne Selden and MarShon Brooks got traded after all. They head to Chicago for Bulls' wing Justin Holiday.
It took so long after the Grizzlies’ 101-94 loss to the Detroit Pistons for head coach J.B. Bickerstaff to emerge from the locker room and into his post-game presser that you’d be forgiven for thinking the team was once again trying to figure out which Brooks they were trading.
What a week.
Fifty-six voters from nine Southern states named “Roma,” director Alfonso Cuaron’s autobiographically influenced return to his native Mexico, the best film of 2018 in annual voting of the Southeastern Film Critics Association.
Before Monday night in Oakland, Mike Conley had played in every game for the Grizzlies and was averaging his most minutes (34.1) in six years. And still the Grizzlies came into the game with the NBA’s 26th-ranked offense.
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The Grizzlies starters didn’t actually start very well, but they closed strong against the Portland Trail Blazers in a 92-83 win on Wednesday night at FedExForum.
Is an immobile Marc Gasol worse than no Gasol at all?
Down three with under two minutes to go, Marc Gasol and Kyle Anderson played hot potato when the Grizzlies needed a bucket.
Late in the third quarter at FedExForum, Lakers forward Kyle Kuzma ran down an offensive rebound, one of the Lakers’ 19 on the night, and whipped the ball to LeBron James, who exploded over Marc Gasol for a dunk, landed on the floor, and bounced up the stanchion behind the basket, as if the hardwood were instead a trampoline.
For most of the Grizzlies’ time in Memphis, the arrival of LeBron James has been an event. For all of the Grizzlies’ time in Memphis -- the old heads can still hear “Beat L.A.” reverberating around the Pyramid -- the arrival of the Los Angeles Lakers has been an event.
The Grizzlies got a split on a two-game East Coast trip, but rookie Jaren Jackson Jr. had a weekend.
It's Mailbag time again. I got a lot of good questions this week, many of them about new Grizzly Joakim Noah.
Marc Gasol had his worst game of the season. Jaren Jackson Jr. fouled out in 21 minutes. The Grizzlies had more missed free throws (nine) than made three-pointers (seven). And they still notched a double-digit win against what is so far one of the West’s best teams.
Mike Conley brought the Grizzlies home in Brooklyn to end a three-game losing streak, but it was rookie Jaren Jackson Jr., with a career-high 36 points and a breathtaking fourth-quarter flurry, who kept hope alive.
After a lengthy courtship, the Grizzlies appear on the verge of tying the knot with free agent center Joakim Noah.
After taking Thanksgiving off, it’s time for a return of the Grizzlies Mailbag, where we’re updating predictions after 20 games and already gazing ahead to the All-Star game and the trade deadline.
It took three big men in constant foul trouble, three technical fouls, and a fading, falling DeMar DeRozan jumper with 1.2 seconds to play for the San Antonio Spurs to almost beat the Memphis Grizzlies at the AT&T Center in San Antonio on Thanksgiving eve. But even that wasn’t quite enough.
It’s not always so simple, but in the modern NBA the team with the best perimeter scorer and playmaker has a pretty big advantage, and it was advantage Grizzlies as Mike Conley scored 28 points to lead the team to its fourth straight win, 98-88, over the Dallas Mavericks (7-9).
This past weekend, the Hallmark Channel premiered “Christmas at Graceland,” a made-for-television feature film where country star Kellie Pickler offers key support to the film’s real star: Graceland.
At 10-5, the Grizzlies are in a playoff race again after a two-year absence. But in an unusual double-dip, they may also be in a Rookie of the Year race for the first time in a decade, since O.J. Mayo finished second to Derrick Rose in 2009.
Marc Gasol made four three-pointers on Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis and each one extended the Grizzlies’ lead over the Minnesota Timberwolves from single to double digits. Gasol added three blocks and drew a key late charge on opposing center Karl-Anthony Towns as the Grizzlies beat the Timberwolves 100-87 to improve to 10-5 and into a three-way tie for third place in the Western Conference.
Let posterity note that rookie Jaren Jackson Jr. set a new career scoring high with an alley-oop dunk that doubled as a "Whoomp! There It Is!" request, a FedExForum rite of passage that pushed the Grizzlies lead to a game-high 14 points in the third quarter of an eventual 112-104 win over head coach Dave Joerger, suited-and-booted Zach Randolph, and rest of the oh-so-familiar visiting Sacramento Kings.
Dillon Brooks exited Grizzlies practice on Tuesday afternoon with a brace on his left knee and a cane in his right hand. It’s a disappointing turn in what had already been a disappointing start to the second season for the team’s unexpected break-out rookie of last season.
Ten games does not a season make, but it’s close enough to draw some preliminary conclusions. The Grizzlies have played four games at home and six on the road. Record-wise, they’ve played two of the league’s three best teams (Warriors, Nuggets) and three games against two of the league’s three worst (Suns, Wizards). What do we think we know so far? Here’s an annual taking of the temperature, now at a new home. Ten takes after ten games.
Winning big is fun, but winning close is better. The building back-and-forth tension is a richer, deeper experience, creating the kind of basketball games that keep you up, sifting through the string of moments lingering in your mind. These games seem longer, in a good way, because all 48 minutes matter.
Two quotes in the closing days of this year’s midterm election, both on the subject of the “migrant caravan” as a political motivator:
As the Grizzlies head out on a three-game Western Conference road trip, a quick look at a couple of the team issues of the moment and the matchups this weekend:
One of the more memorable Memphis cultural moments of the past several years was Justin Timberlake’s 2015 induction speech for the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.
It was the pre-Halloween game at FedExForum on Tuesday night and the Grizzlies decided to come out dressed as the road-trip Washington Wizards.
Marc Gasol heard a pop and then went numb.
This was one of those games, for the Grizzlies, where the outcome that mattered most was not the final score.
The Grizzlies are hitting the road for a two-game West Coast trip a man short, with forward JaMychal Green likely out more than a month with a broken jaw suffered in the second half of Friday’s home opener.
It’s a first-quarter timeout at the Grizzlies home opener and Grizz, the mascot, comes through the tunnel with something in his hands. It’s an infant in costume, a bear-cub cutie. Grizz carries his cub to midcourt, “Circle of Life” from The Lion King playing. He raises the little one above his head, toward the rafters. The crowd -- appropriately -- roars.
In the first half, Marc Gasol looked a lot like his team: slow of foot and uncertain of mind. Gasol got (a little bit) better in the second half, which was more than you could say for the team as a whole.
Former Memphis Tigers standout D.J. Stephens has been signed to a two-way contract by the Memphis Grizzlies, the team announced Monday evening.
During the decade-long Mike Conley and Marc Gasol era, a dearth of three-point shooting elsewhere on the roster has consistently plagued the Grizzlies. Only once in this stretch have the Grizzlies finished in the Top 20 in three-point attempts and only twice in three-point percentage, never higher than 17th on the accuracy front.
It was a week of sobering news and a news-making Presidential visit. Because the opening items underscore reckonings that came, alternately, from us and to us, I kept it light on the rest of this week’s 10.
A tale of two Media Day scrums: Jaren Jackson Jr. sat encircled, with microphones, recorders, and TV cameras surrounding Castle Jackson like an impenetrable moat. He held court with a big smile, talking about rap albums and Netflix shows, essaying the locker-room generation gap for which he’s the poster manchild in a manner that tiptoed the line between guileless and knowing.
The Grizzlies preseason just started, and by Sunday morning it will be more than half over.
Editor’s Note: This is the third of a five-part series previewing the Grizzlies roster.
Marc Gasol in the kitchen. Mike Conley making Christmas mischief. Jaren Jackson Jr. in motion. A title around your waist.
After talk comes action. On Monday morning, the Grizzlies assembled in the Don Poier Media Center near the eastern edge of FedExForum for an audience of Memphis (and Japanese) media. On Tuesday morning, suited and high-top-sneaker booted, they migrated west to the Forum practice court to assemble for their head coach.
As near as anyone can tell, people have been frying food since the Middle Ages. I like to think that this unknown date, when a first fritter was dunked in boiling fat, was our true moment of civilization. Around the world, perhaps nothing fries up as nicely as a chicken. Setting aside vegetarians and the extremely health conscious, it is everyone’s favorite food. Right?
On Saturday, the Brooks Museum of Art will be active inside and out. The work of renowned Barcelona sculptor and artist Jaume Plensa will make a Memphis debut as his “Talking Continents” exhibit opens to the public. Meanwhile, a secretive, week-long “Outings" project installation from French artist Julien de Casabianca will begin at parts unknown across the city.
The heritage of Hi Records brackets this first weekly list, with the sound of Al Green and the image of guitarist/songwriter Teenie Hodges making unexpected appearances. Elsewhere, our criminal justice system bears watching, next year’s mayor’s race gets weird, and our food trucks get some pub.
The Grizzlies’ seven-year playoff streak ended hard last season, and with shocking quickness. The unraveling included a fired coach, one star hitting the pine after 12 games, another star left alone and unhappy, the odd non-trade-then-disappearance of a veteran free-agent-to-be, and waves of discomfort for a fan base that had grown accustomed to consistent, if limited, success.
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