Topic: Memphis Grizzlies
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October 2018
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For the second season in a row, Grizzlies forward JaMychal Green will miss significant time due to a random injury suffered in the team’s home opener. -
Calkins: Grizzlies win just what the team and city needed
Jaren Jackson Jr. began the night by dapping up Young Dolph during the introductions. -
Grizzlies Postgame: Conley, Gasol get offense into gear in win over Hawks
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. -
Grizzlies Game Day: A must-win home opener?
A home opener is supposed to be a day of celebration, whatever the future holds, not a time for the biting of fingernails. -
Penny, Jackson Jr. say they would not have taken G League option
If Memphis head coach Penny Hardaway was offered a chance at $125,000 to skip a year of college and go to the G-League, he would decline. -
Calkins: Grizzlies embarrassed in opener
By the end of this one, the Grizzlies commercials almost felt like an affront, didn’t they? -
Road Recap: Pacers 111, Grizzlies 83
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. -
Calkins: The return of the Memphis Grizzlies – and everything that means
It’s the start of another Memphis Grizzlies season. What exactly does that mean? -
Six reasons for fans to be excited about this Grizzlies season
On the cusp of this Memphis Grizzlies season, the franchise’s 18th in Memphis, the prevailing questions have been been about the team: How good can they be? How concerning were their preseason struggles? But let’s take a moment to talk about you. -
Turn Four: How worried should the Grizzlies be about preseason struggles?
When former Grizzlies head coach Dave Joerger needed a bucket, he’d yell “Turn Four,” a call for Zach Randolph to get the ball. When we need to mull over the big questions at key moments in the Grizzlies season, we use it to call a Daily Memphian quorum. -
Grizzlies Season Preview: Can this team be any good?
Everyone’s happy the NBA preseason has shrunk. Not long ago, eight games was the norm. Now every team plays between four and six. The result is fewer games that don’t count, padded out by players who won’t be on regular season rosters; more air into an 82-game real season that needed extra rest time. Win-win, right? -
NBA Preview: Notes and record predictions for all 30 teams
There are different levels of NBA fandom. Some care about their team and some care about the entire league. There’s no right or wrong way to be a fan, but the following NBA-wide deep dive is for the latter kind. -
Grizzlies succumb to Rockets’ 3-point barrage to close out preseason
Finishing up the final lap of the preseason, the Memphis Grizzlies showed more of a regular-season rotation early. The Houston Rockets showed midseason form on their 3-point shooting. The Rockets unloaded their 3-point arsenal, all the way down to a Chris Paul 30-footer in the first half, building a 27-point lead en route to a 121-103 victory over the Grizzlies on Friday night in the preseason finale for both teams. -
Former Tiger D.J. Stephens signs two-way contract with Grizzlies
Former Memphis Tigers standout D.J. Stephens has been signed to a two-way contract by the Memphis Grizzlies, the team announced Monday evening. -
Kyle Anderson, trio of backup point guard candidates look to expand the Grizzlies’ playmaking palette
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. -
Watanabe leads late rally as youthful Grizz defeat Pacers in OT
A night after relying on veterans for a home preseason win, the Memphis Grizzlies yielded to their youth. -
Grizzlies veterans lead way in home preseason debut
Score one for the grown folks. -
Grizzlies Roster Preview: Plenty of room in the rotation for both Jaren Jackson Jr. and JaMychal Green
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. -
Grizzlies make home preseason debut in weekend back-to-back
The Grizzlies preseason just started, and by Sunday morning it will be more than half over. -
25 years ago we thought the NFL screwed us; turns out it did us a favor
In an alternate universe the Memphis Hound Dogs are playing the NFL’s Thursday game tonight. In the real world it’s the eve of the Memphis Grizzlies’ first NBA preseason home game against the Atlanta Hawks. -
Conley, Parsons strong in Grizzlies preseason debut
The Grizzlies made their preseason debut Tuesday night in Birmingham with a 131-115 loss to the Houston Rockets. Scores don’t really matter in the preseason, but here’s a chain of thoughts on things that might: -
Grizzlies Roster Preview: Garrett Temple, Dillon Brooks and Wayne Selden all have a case for the starting lineup
Editor’s Note: This is the third of a five-part series previewing the Grizzlies roster.
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September 2018
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Calkins: For these Grizzlies, just one thing will spell success
The final dance contestant was Yuta Watanabe. -
Grizzlies Roster Preview: Chandler Parsons, MarShon Brooks are offensive X-factors
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a five-part series previewing the Grizzlies roster. -
Conley a full participant as Grizzlies open training camp
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.
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