Grizzlies trade Marcus Smart, Jake LaRavia in three-team deal
The Grizzlies will receive multiple second-round selections, as well as Washington Wizards players.
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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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Memphis GrizzliesGrizzlies Insider: Memphis releases injury report with several upgrades
The Grizzlies upgraded Ja Morant, Vince Williams Jr. and Marcus Smart ahead of the game against the Spurs on Monday night. Desmond Bane will not play with ankle soreness.
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Grizzlies Podcast Grizzlies podcast: Making sense of Marcus Smart’s trade
Drew Hill and Chris Herrington break down the Marcus Smart trade and what it means for the Memphis Grizzlies.
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Memphis GrizzliesGrizzlies Insider: Memphis trade reunites former AAU rivals
The Memphis Grizzlies traded Marcus Smart and Jake LaRavia, bringing back two future second-round draft picks and a pair of Washington Wizards players, Marvin Bagley III and Johnny Davis. What will come next? Time will tell.
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Memphis Grizzlies Zach Kleiman: Grizzlies weren’t trying to ‘win a press conference’
Grizzlies general manager Zach Kleiman talked about the deadline move that traded away Marcus Smart and Jake LaRavia on Friday.
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The Memphis Grizzlies were finally healthy. The Thunder still thoroughly beat them on Saturday inside FedExForum.
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Memphis Grizzlies Tee Morant, father of Ja Morant, ejected from Grizzlies loss to Thunder
NBA crew chief Josh Tiven said Tee Morant, the father of Grizzlies star Ja Morant, was ejected from Saturday’s game for making “overtly disrespectful comments about the integrity of the crew.”
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MLB All-Star and Germantown resident Brent Rooker’s Grizzlies fandom has had a resurgence thanks to a budding friendship with Memphis guard Luke Kennard.
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Memphis GrizzliesGrizzlies Insider: Morant says Grizz will stay ‘ready to go’ as break nears
As All-Star weekend approaches, so comes an eight-day vacation. After a humbling loss to Oklahoma City, what does this break mean for the Grizzlies?
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Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies look tired in sloppy loss to Clippers
It was a bad night for Memphis in the franchise’s first game at the Intuit Dome. It was clobbered in a 128-114 loss to the Clippers.
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Memphis Grizzlies rookie Jaylen Wells will represent his alma mater, Sonoma State University, on his shoes during Friday’s Rising Stars mini-tournament during All-Star Weekend.
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Memphis GrizzliesKennard Court: Ohio town is giving back to its ‘once in a lifetime’ Grizzlies player
Luke Kennard grabbed a small Ohio town’s attention as a seventh-grader. More than a decade later, the Grizzlies guard will have his name on the Franklin High School basketball court.
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Memphis GrizzliesGrizzlies Insider: Jaylen Wells looking forward to throwing Zach Edey a lob
Jaylen Wells isn’t a player who throws many alley-oop lobs for the Memphis Grizzlies. On Friday, his goal is to connect on one with teammate Zach Edey in the Rising Stars tournament.
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Memphis Grizzlies Rising Stars: Zach Edey, Jaylen Wells advance to Sunday’s All-Star game
Jaylen Wells and Zach Edey will play on Sunday in the NBA All-Star tournament after Team C won the Rising Stars event.
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Grizzlies Podcast Grizzlies podcast: West Coast split; Vince Williams Jr. impact
Drew Hill and Chris Herrington recap the Grizzlies’ performances against the Suns and Clippers and discuss the importance of Vince Williams Jr. as Memphis looks to the playoffs.
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Memphis Grizzlies JJJ makes the day of two ‘kid reporters’ at All-Star Media Day
Jaren Jackson Jr. impressed two kid reporters from ESPN by FaceTiming Jesser, a YouTube star who makes basketball content with more than 25 million subscribers.
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Memphis GrizzliesHill: If the NBA has an All-Star problem, at least Jaren Jackson Jr. didn’t add to it
“The former Defensive Player of the Year blocked two shots. He said before the game he was going to defend the full length of the court, then made good on that promise.”
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Memphis GrizzliesGrizzlies Insider: TCU legend calls Des Bane school’s greatest player
Desmond Bane will have his jersey retired by TCU on Tuesday night. His former teammate, Thunder forward Kenrich Williams, said Bane is the greatest Horned Frog in the school’s history.
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Memphis Grizzlies guard Desmond Bane sat down for an exclusive interview with The Daily Memphian before TCU retired his college-jersey number.
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Memphis GrizzliesGrizzlies GM says team won’t trade Ja
Morant’s name made headlines after Howard Beck, a reporter for The Ringer, speculated on a podcast Morant could become available on the trade market should the Grizzlies fizzle out in the first round of the playoffs.
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Memphis Tigers BasketballNCAA tweaks Memphis basketball results, adding Quad 1 win
The NCAA made a change to a result on the Tigers’ schedule on Thursday, which gives coach Penny Hardaway’s team another Quadrant 1 win.
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Grizzlies Podcast Grizzlies podcast: Memphis responds to trade rumor
Drew Hill and Chris Herrington discuss the All-Star break, Desmond Bane’s jersey retirement and Grizzlies GM Zach Kleiman’s statement on Ja Morant trade rumors.
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Memphis Tigers Basketball Penny Hardaway perplexed by Tigers’ NET ranking, NCAA Tournament forecast
He is less than thrilled with where many of the experts have the Tigers projected in the NCAA Tournament field.
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Also, an injury to San Antonio Spurs big man Victor Wembanayama could increase Jaren Jackson Jr.’s chances to win Defensive Player of the Year for a second time.
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Memphis Grizzlies Cavaliers rebounding ‘doomed’ Grizzlies in road loss
Rebounding doomed the Grizzlies in a loss at Cleveland on Sunday night. Coach Taylor Jenkins believed Memphis played well enough otherwise to win.
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