Ja Morant issued a call for Grizzlies fans to come to FedExForum for the team’s playoff push. It has been a tricky year for in-person attendance. But more and more fans are trickling back.
The Grizzlies’ seven-game marathon trip was a revelation in more ways than one.
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Dillon Brooks, an agitator, is helping to elevate the intensity of important games between the Trail Blazers and Grizzlies.
A strong social media presence — and a Chinese actress/superfan named Yang Zhiying — fuel the Memphis NBA team’s surging popularity in the world’s biggest market.
On the sixth anniversary of the game in which the Portland Trail Blazers broke Mike Conley’s face, the Grizzlies swept the evil Blazers (and reminded us how intense NBA basketball can be).
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Jaren Jackson Jr. will rest his knee following his first two games of the season.
The 10-year veteran had been on a 10-day contract. He will finish the last 14 games with Memphis, plus the playoffs.
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Grizzlies owner Robert Pera contributed $10,000 to a GoFundMe for LaVelt Hill, a longtime usher at FedExForum who needs a kidney transplant. The fundraiser is a tribute to Hill and the team’s extended family.
Jaren Jackson Jr. looked great in his return despite the Memphis loss.
The Grizzlies can forget about the Clippers loss with two wins over Portland this weekend.
Jaren Jackson Jr. returned to play for the Grizzlies Wednesday night. That’s the good news. The bad news was the rest of the game.
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Jackson, who has been out since the start of the season, will come off the bench and play a limited number of minutes.
A bad loss to the Pistons moved the Grizzlies to ninth, just behind the Golden State Warriors.
The Grizzlies have been short-handed but also offensively explosive. And the De’Anthony Melton Appreciation Society reconvenes.
Jaren Jackson Jr. was upgraded on the injury report ahead of the Grizzlies’ game against the Clippers.
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April 19, 2021: The Denver Nuggets defeated the Memphis Grizzlies in the second overtime in Denver.Related story: