The Grizzlies need three victories to break the franchise record for single-season wins with five games remaining.

The goal now is to be playing the best basketball possible as they wait for Ja Morant to return from injury and look to the playoffs. 

Taylor Jenkins won’t take credit, but his peers and mentors believe everything he has accomplished with the Grizzlies thus far has been “spectacular.”

March 30, 3022: The Memphis Grizzlies defeat the San Antonio Spurs at AT&T Center in San Antonio.

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The last shot from San Antonio’s Keldon Johnson went wide, and the Grizzlies win their first Southwest Division title in team history.

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Box score: Grizzlies 112, Spurs 111

Two common observations are that this success is a tribute to the quality of the roster and also that the team has been fortunate Morant’s absences have aligned with weaker stretches of the schedule.

Two years ago, Andre Iguodala declined to report to the Memphis Grizzlies after a trade. Now they have essentially clinched the No. 2 seed in the West. So what did Dillon Brooks have to say to him after the Grizzlies smashed the Warriors? 

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March 28, 2022: The Memphis Grizzlies defeat the Golden State Warriors at FedExForum.

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Golden State came to Memphis and showed what the typical team looks like without its best players. Memphis showed the Warriors that it doesn’t have to be that way. 

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Box score: Grizzlies 123, Warriors 95

After the Grizzlies beat the Warriors in January, Ja Morant stared down a kid in a Golden State jersey. The kid is Maddox Hehn, 8, from Nashville. He was back at FedExForum Monday night. But he sure looked different this time around.

The Grizzlies forward will join star point guard Ja Morant on the bench. The Warriors are missing Steph Curry, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson.

“Not to be a total buzzkill here, but clearly this game isn’t the mega-showdown we thought it was going to be.”

When De’Anthony Melton is hot from 3-point range, the record shows it means great things for the Grizzlies.

The Memphis Grizzlies, one of the youngest NBA teams this season, just beat two of the league’s biggest stars in a span of four days, and with their own best player unavailable both times.

March 26, 2022: The Memphis Grizzlies defeat the Milwaukee Bucks at FedExForum.

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The Grizzlies scored 120-plus points for the sixth time in seven games, and De’Anthony Melton continued his hot streak, scoring 24 points, including six 3-pointers.

March 24, 2022: The Memphis Grizzlies defeat the Indiana Pacers at FedExForum.

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The Grizzlies handled business with an offensive onslaught, even while missing three rotation players and a key reserve. 

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Box score: Grizzlies 133, Pacers 103

The Grizzlies center was 13 when he met and played for Kenny McFadden in New Zealand after Adams’ father died.

“It doesn’t worry me a lot, we just have to get the group whole and build that chemistry as quick as possible,” coach Taylor Jenkins said Wednesday.

“We still got the grit, and we still got the grind, and we got a lot of swagger to us,” Grizzlies guard Dillon Brooks told a reporter after the Memphis NBA team’s defeat of the Brooklyn Nets.

ESPN came to Memphis to cover Ja Morant. They got a whole team of swaggering Grizzlies instead. 

The Grizzlies guard hopes to get Mike Miller, whose record he broke, to sign the keepsake.