Memphis Grizzlies

Ja Morant has been named the 2019-20 NBA Rookie of the Year. The 6-3 guard is the second player to win the Rookie of the Year Award with the Grizzlies, joining Pau Gasol (2001-02). Morant received 99 first-place votes from a global panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters and earned 498 total points. Miami Heat […] More

The Western Conference play-in game between the Portland Trail Blazers and Memphis Grizzlies averaged 1.52 million viewers on Saturday. The game was the first ever play-in game in NBA history.  The game was the most-watch season finale on TNT since 2011 when a Spurs-Lakers game drew 2.62 million while viewership increased 15 percent from TNT’s […] More

Ja Morant revealed he played the final four games of the restart with a fractured right thumb. Morant scored a season-best 35 points in a 126-122 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers in the play-in game. “For the past four games, since the [Toronto] Raptors game, I was out there playing with a fractured thumb,” […] More

FiveThirtyEight gives the Portland Trail Blazers a 75 percent chance of making the playoffs, compare to 17 percent for the Memphis Grizzlies, six percent for the Phoenix Suns and two percent for the San Antonio Spurs following Sunday’s games. The New Orleans Pelicans and Sacramento Kings were eliminated on Sunday. The Blazers are a half […] More

Jaren Jackson Jr. will miss the remainder of the season with a torn meniscus in his left knee. Jackson suffered the injury after making contact with an opposing player while contesting a shot in Monday’s game. Jackson is expected to make a full recovery. Jackson averaged 17.4 points, 4.6 rebounds and 1.6 blocks in 28.5 […] More

Anthony Tolliver is likely to return to the Memphis Grizzlies after his 10-day contract expires, league sources told Marc Stein of The New York Times. Tolliver is reportedly attracting interest from multiple teams around the league. Tolliver signed a 10-day contract on March 2nd. NBA teams will be allowed to be make transactions starting on […] More

Ja Morant wrote a letter to a Kentucky judge asking for the removal of a Confederate monument in downtown Murray. “As a young Black man, I cannot stress enough how disturbing and oppressive it is to know the city still honors a Confederate war general defending white supremacy and hatred,” wrote Murray in the letter […] More

The Memphis Grizzlies are the favorites to end up as the No. 8 seed in the Western Conference at -190, according to odds from BetOnline. The Grizzlies will likely remain as the eighth seed ahead of a Play-In Tournament Game in which they would have to be defeated twice. The Portland Trail Blazers have the […] More

The Memphis Grizzlies will be able to open their practice and training facilities as part of Phase 1 of Shelby County’s “Back to Business” plan. The NBA will allow teams in areas with loosened restrictions to re-open their facilities on May 8th. “We are in the process of reviewing the criteria received from the League […] More

Niele Ivey has been hired as the head coach of Notre Dame’s women’s basketball team. Ivey spent this past season as an assistant coach for the Memphis Grizzlies. Ivey made two appearances in the Final Four as a player at Notre Dame and seven as an assistant coach. Ivey will replace Muffet McGraw as head […] More

by Colin McGowan It remains potently strange that Larry Bird, three-time MVP and something like the sixth-best player of all-time, breezed through Indiana, organized one of the best teams in the league, and then quietly walked away from a profession nobody knew he would be good at or even wanted to pursue in the first […] More