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Basketball isn’t as fabricated as the NBA may seem today. Missed travels, endless flops all have tainted a game of grit. However, some players and even teams embrace the dirtiness of basketball; but no team plays out of the principle of physicality more than the Memphis Grizzlies, whose home is formally known as the “Grind […]

He may already be 39-years-old now, but Vince Carter just reminded everyone on Friday night that he was once a slam dunk champion and one of the best in-game dunkers of all time. During the game between his Memphis Grizzlies and the Houston Rockets, Vinsanity turned back the clock and posterized Corey Brewer with a […]

During last summer’s free agency, many teams splurged with signings that seemed to be overpaying some players due to the increase in the salary cap. However, with only more than a quarter of the games played this season, some franchises might already be regretting overspending on players that have not played to the level of their […]

Memphis Grizzlies forward Chandler Parsons will return from a 17-game absence tonight after missing a month with a bone bruise in his left knee, according to ESPN’s Tim MacMahon. The Grizzlies (18-12) have lost three games in a row, including four of their last five games. Memphis has struggled to score, failing to reach in […]

After signing a max contract with the Memphis Grizzlies last summer, a lot of expectations were placed on Chandler Parsons‘ shoulders as the team hopes he is the missing piece in their quest to win a championship. However, he has not been able to showcase his talents with his new team yet as he has only […]

One thing the NBA is enjoying these days is more money than it has ever had before. Team valuations are sky high, player salaries are increasing, and the league’s profit is rising. The salary cap has risen, and it looks like that won’t stop anytime soon. Previous salary cap number projections have been as high as […]

Teams around the league are gauging interest for Memphis Grizzlies shooting guard Tony Allen. The team had previously engaged in trade talks for Allen with the Minnesota Timberwolves back in 2014, sources told Ronald Tillery of The Commercial Appeal. With the recent offensive spurts of Virginia Commonwealth standout Troy Daniels, the Grizzlies could dangle All-NBA […]

The Memphis Grizzlies will have floor general Mike Conley Jr. at their disposal much earlier than anticipated, as the team announced he will play tonight against the Sacramento Kings. Conley is only two-and-a-half weeks removed from suffering transverse process fractures in his lower back on Nov. 28, at which point team doctors gave a four-to-six week […]

On Monday evening, Chandler Parsons took to Instagram and held a Q&A for his followers while on live video. The session went well and had more than 500 viewers at a time asking him different questions until one of his good friends trolled him with a hilarious question of his own. Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid trolled […]

When the Memphis Grizzlies saw Mike Conley, get injured, many thought that it would be the start of their slide in the standings and that they will not be able to sustain their early success without him. However, the team proved their doubters wrong as they won seven of their last eight games without the 29-year-old […]

LeBron James is arguably the most famous NBA player in this generation. Not only does he have a huge fan base in his home state of Ohio, but also across the country and the world. Whenever his team goes on the road, it is expected that arenas will be sold out as they want to […]

After recently sharing their strong bond and special friendship, Joel Embiid is back with his social media antics and once again trolled his good friend, Memphis Grizzlies forward Chandler Parsons. On Monday evening, the 28-year-old Florida product went on Instagram and held a Q&A with his followers while on live video. Embiid took it as […]

An NBA writer and columnist for Spanish basketball website Sportando quit his job after being called out by Memphis Grizzlies forward Chandler Parsons for giving inaccurate information. “The Process” who also goes by the Twitter username @paxer89, tweeted news about the 28-year-old Florida product possibly getting surgery on his injured left knee and might miss the […]

The Memphis Grizzlies have signed journeyman free agent guard Toney Douglas, according to ESPN’s Tim MacMahon. The veteran shooter will make up for the losses of point guard Mike Conley Jr. and veteran swingman Vince Carter, who are recovering from injury. The team will not need to make room for Douglas as a 16th spot […]

Between the years of 2001 and 2014, Pau Gasol only played for two NBA teams: the Memphis Grizzlies and the Los Angeles Lakers. The 36-year-old’s brother, Marc Gasol, is currently the franchise player for Memphis, so he was naturally eager to watch Sunday’s game between the two teams. Time to watch some @NBA basketball! Between […]

The Memphis Grizzlies have been battling injuries to their players since the season started. Their prized recruit of the summer, Chandler Parsons, has suffered another setback and is out for two weeks while Zach Randolph has missed the past five games due to a sore knee. Earlier this week, the team saw another one of […]

Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol showed great awareness on defense, picking a stumbling Jeff Green and taking it back to the playground, hitting a sprinting Troy Williams in transition with a blind overhead pass for the two-handed jam. https://vine.co/v/5UUuVdhuxag This was yet another sweet treat from Gasol’s bag as he drops this dime right above […]

The Memphis Grizzlies received a huge blow as their starting point guard, Mike Conley, will be sidelined for at least the next six weeks after suffering a fracture on his vertebrae. With the lack of depth they have in the point guard position, the team is looking to sign a free agent soon to address […]

Memphis Grizzlies point guard Mike Conley Jr. has suffered a transverse process fracture in the vertebrae, sources told Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical. He will “likely” be out six to eight weeks with the injury, per ESPN’s Jeff Goodman. The injury took place in the third quarter of the Grizzlies’ 104-85 Monday night loss the Charlotte Hornets as Conley […]

Memphis Grizzlies‘ guard Vince Carter is one of the more popular players in the NBA especially during the early 2000’s when he used to fill up the highlight reel every time he plays. During his team’s game against the Charlotte Hornets on Monday night, one of his fans proved that he is still a well-followed […]

Joel Embiid has continued to make a lot of new fans because of his hilarious and playful antics on social media. One of the more recent ones was when he trolled Chandler Parsons after the Memphis Grizzlies small forward posted a video of him warming up for their preseason matchup. Many believed that the 22-year-old Cameroonian international simply […]

The heckling for Mike Conley Jr. has been relentless during the first month of the season, and it wasn’t any less evident on Saturday night as his Memphis Grizzlies faced the Miami Heat on the road. According to Grizzlies beat writer Ronald Tillery, two fans were sitting behind him heckling Conley for the largest contract […]

Hassan Whiteside doesn’t care if Marc Gasol hears him complaining about him. He’s that angry with Gasol. After the Heat and Grizzlies played Friday night, Whiteside had some choice words for Gasol with a special emphasis on the flopping the Grizzlies center does. Via the Sun-Sentinel: “When you’re Marc Gasol, I guess you can throw […]

The Memphis Grizzlies have granted forward Zach Randolph an indefinite leave of absence after his mother died on Thanksgiving, according to ESPN’s Tim MacMahon. Her death is the second to occur during the holiday within the NBA family after the death of Cleveland Cavaliers forward/center Channing Frye‘s father was first reported on Thursday. “He can take as much time as […]

Memphis Grizzlies forward James Ennis will miss the next two weeks with a strained calf, according to ESPN’s Tim MacMahon. Ennis suffered the injury in Monday night’s game against the Charlotte Hornets. The 26-year-old is averaging 9.1 points, 5.3 rebounds, 1.4 assists, and 0.9 steals on 44.2 percent shooting from the floor and 34.1 percent from […]

It’s not often an NBA player gets the chance to show off his talents in attendance of the G.O.A.T. So when Memphis Grizzlies defensive specialist Tony Allen got the chance to put Charlotte Hornets shooting guard Marco Belinelli on spin-cycle, he finished the play with a strong layup and stared down Michael Jordan, who was […]

On Saturday night, the Memphis Grizzlies came out with a victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves, 93-71. During the game, Timberwolves budding star Andrew Wiggins struggled. The athletic forward went 2-of-11 for only seven points and four rebounds. It tied Wiggins’ lowest scoring game for the season. Nevertheless, Memphis head coach David Fizdale had good things to […]

The Memphis Grizzlies have taken a cautious approach on their prized recruit of the summer, Chandler Parsons, and have been monitoring his minutes early in the season since he’s coming off knee surgery. However, even with the minutes restriction he’s been playing under, it still did not prevent him from suffering a bone bruise on […]

Last summer may have been a memorable one for him as he signed the biggest contract in NBA history of $153 million for five years, but for Memphis Grizzlies‘ point guard Mike Conley, there is still something he wants to achieve in his career. Despite making the playoffs in each season since he joined the […]

To understand the friendship between Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and forward Chandler Parsons is to let go of every pre-conceived notion of owner-to-player or boss-to-employee relationship one has become familiar with. The two were close, very close — a rarity for a player who at the time had only spent two years with the franchise. […]

Memphis Grizzlies swingman Chandler Parsons is in disbelief that he’ll likely be booed upon his return to the arena he called home for the past two seasons — American Airlines Center. The former Dallas Maverick suited up 127 times for the team, averaging 13.7 points and 4.7 rebounds per game last season. His year was […]

L.A. Clippers All-Star point guard Chris Paul thought he had two points in the bag after stealing a lazy pass from Marc Gasol and racing coast-to-coast for a layup finish, but Memphis Grizzlies guard Andrew Harrison came to meet him at the rim with the pin-down block. But that wasn’t the end of Paul, as he […]

The Los Angeles Clippers and the Memphis Grizzlies played a hard fought game on Wednesday night.  The Grizzlies had control for most of the game until the Clippers came back in the fourth and the game went back and forth.  Ultimately, the game was capped off by this dagger of a three pointer by Marc […]

Memphis Grizzlies center Brandan Wright will be out for approximately two months after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his left ankle on Tuesday, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical. The North Carolina alum is a very athletic big that can rebound and block shots while scoring efficiently in the paint, almost a perfect backup to bruiser Marc Gasol. […]

Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol went absolutely nuts after hitting a late corner three to take down the league-leading L.A. Clippers, celebrating in true Squidward from SpongeBob SquarePants fashion. The celebration also resembles the one from UFC Featherweight and Lightweight champion Conor McGregor. What was better from Marc Gasol: the shot or the shimmy? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/3g8gHTkV3t […]

Before the New York Knicks secured the services of Derrick Rose last summer, the team’s president, Phil Jackson, admitted that they were targeting a different player who they believed was a good fit in their system. The 71-year-old front-office executive revealed that the team was very much interested in going after Memphis Grizzlies‘ point guard Mike […]

The results of the Presidential elections last week has divided the country after seeing one of the closest races in history. Protesters flocked the streets of different major cities in the U.S. just days after Donald Trump won the Presidency. And now, even NBA teams are showing their disapproval of the next commander-in-chief. News surfaced […]

The ageless Vince Carter was back with productive minutes off the bench for the Memphis Grizzlies, tallying his second 20-point game in the last three games after a 102-96 win over the Utah Jazz on Monday. The 39-year-old is not only the oldest player in the league, but also the oldest to record a 20-point […]

Updating a previous report, the Utah Jazz will be without their starting backcourt of George Hill and Rodney Hood tonight vs. the Memphis Grizzlies, according to ESPN’s Tim MacMahon. Hill is sitting his fifth straight game due to a thumb injury despite being a participant in practice earlier today. Hood has been battling a nasty cold and […]