Potential Grizzlies targets with first-round draft pick, if they don’t trade it
Liam McNeeley talks to the media at the 2025 NBA basketball Draft Combine in Chicago, May 14, 2025. McNeeley could be one of the players Memphis targets with its No. 16 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. (AP File Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
The Memphis Grizzlies were supposed to have an uneventful draft.
They still might. But that isn’t as certain anymore.
Next week could bring fireworks. The initial thought was that the wait would be until July for some of the big action to kick up.
That was until Sunday, when the Grizzlies completed the first blockbuster trade of the offseason.
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Drew Hill
Drew Hill covers the Memphis Grizzlies and is a top-10 APSE winner. He has worked throughout the South writing about college athletics before landing in Memphis.
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