30 Teams, 30 Days: Memphis Draft Preview
Ricky Rubio is clearly the second best prospect in the draft, but the Grizzlies run into several problems with that strategy and instead could select Hasheem Thabeet.
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Arthur Shines In His First Game
Twenty of the thirty players taken in the first round of June’s draft have made their NBA debuts. The results varied greatly, from excellent to down right horrible.
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How Badly Does Memphis Need Some Home Cooking?
What the Griz lack is a household name. Someone that your grandmother knows about even if she can’t tell the difference between a pick on the hardwood and an interception on the gridiron.
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Lottery Summit: Memphis Grizzles
Memphis fans do not have much confidence in the front office, especially after they dealt Pau Gasol to the Lakers for almost nothing in return, so how do they see the draft playing out?
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Auditing The Grizzlies 2007-08 Season
Rudy Gay positively broke out this season and is the Grizzlies' focal building block moving forward, that is unless they land the number one overall pick.
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Memphis Needs To Move In A New Direction: Deal Gasol
It’s become clear Pau Gasol is not the player this team should be building around. That honor belongs to a young, versatile forward by the name of Rudy Gay.
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Summer League Analysis: Game 2, Vs. Detroit
Memphis had the athleticism to match up with Detroit, but when they went small in stretches, they weren’t able to play effective basketball inside. Some of the players had off games and it resulted in a close loss. Each Grizzly had some bright spots, but most of them had better games earlier in the LVSL.
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Summer League Analysis: Game 1, Vs. China
Phoenix Suns, Version 2.0. They looked just like the Suns with their hand-offs on the flanking wings and overall play on offense. Rudy Gay showed all the promise he displayed at UCONN.
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30 Teams, 30 Days: Memphis Draft Preview
With no real natural center prospects in the Draft aside from Greg Oden, they can focus on their need for a strong power forward that can score to compliment Pau Gasol when he is inserted at the center position.
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Will The Grizzlies Rebound Next Season?
The 2006-2007 season has been a nightmare a lineup featuring Chauncy Billups, Rudy Gay, Mike Miller, Hakim Warrick, and Greg Oden/Kevin Durant is pretty darn good. And that doesn't even factor in the kind of player Jerry West will get for Pau Gasol.
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Grading The Deal: Rudy Gay And Stromile Swift For Shane Battier
Following a disappointing season, which saw the Houston Rockets miss the playoffs after a very promising 04-05 campaign, the need was definitely there for a role player who can play defense and add a 3rd scoring option to go along with T-Mac and Yao.
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Grizzlies Have A+ Draft
The Grizzlies entered the 2006 NBA draft needing help at multiple positions and were armed with only the 24th pick. The general consensus was that they’d mimic recent drafts and take a ready-to-produce college player to help maintain their playoff status. But Jerry West stunned us all by making a blockbuster trade and acquiring three uber-talented prospects.
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Grizzlies Draft Preview
The Grizzlies enter the 2006 NBA draft with holes to fill. They could use a point guard considering Bobby Jackson and Chucky Atkins are both unrestricted free agents. Not to mention Damon Stoudamire is still recuperating from a severe knee injury.
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The Answer Can Be Found
Allen Iverson would be a perfect complement to Paul Gasol. The Grizzlies are a very good team, in a very good Western Conference, but with their current roster, they are not a legitimate contender. A move for Allen Iverson could get them over the hump.
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RotoFreak.com: A Position Battle With Atkins In Memphis?
Although he was stuck behind Gilbert Arenas - who is 2nd in the league in minutes per game (41.6), Chucky Atkins was still getting 20 mpg off the bench. Fresh off starting all 82 games for the Lakers in 04-05, and now in a position to sign anywhere that he wants, you'd think that he would sign into the place offering him the best opportunity. With BJax being a perennial backup, better used as a combo guard off the bench, and riddled with injury concerns, it's pretty safe to say that Chucky will get his opportunity to shine.
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One Team's Trash…
When the deal is completed, the Jason Williams trade will be yet another swap that reflects the NBA's "adopt a mal-content" program.
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Reinventing The Grizzwheelies
All the rumours I have heard about the Grizzlies focus on trades. It doesn’t look like many of the same faces will be back this coming season. The team are very publicly trying to sell the #19 draft pick for $3 million cash, Bonzi Wells and Jason Williams have been seriously shopped.
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Grizzlies Let Game 2 Slip From Their Grasp
The Memphis Grizzlies let a game get away from them Wednesday evening, but all things considered it was perhaps better than getting blown out and having to return home.
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Grizzlies Find Out Phoenix Is For Real
The Memphis Grizzlies found out the hard way that the Phoenix Suns’ 62 win season may just be for real. Despite holding Amare Stoudemire to nine points and Steve to 3-11 from the field, the Grizzlies lost in Phoenix to the Suns 114-103.
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Grizzlies Battling Through Injuries
Injuries could put a stop to the Grizzlies magic season.
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Memphis Mum At The Trade Deadline
As expected, the Memphis Grizzlies decided not to shake up the roster at the mid-season trade deadline.
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Grizzlies Midseason Analysis
It’s that time again. We’ve already reached the mid-way point of the season and now’s the time to breakdown what the Grizzlies have done and where they’re headed.
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West Looking to Make Moves
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Grizzlies Continue to Underachieve
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It’s Official--Fratello Named Head Coach, Musselman Assistant
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Vince Carter To Memphis?
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Disappointing Start to the Season
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Greg Graber
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Greg Graber (grizzliegreg@hotmail.com)
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With the Fourth Pick in the 2002 Draft…
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A Silent Summer?
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What About the JWill Trade?
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The Season’s Question Marks
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What's With Pau?
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Will This Be the Breakout Year?
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This Season Was Supposed to be Different…
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Let's Eavesdrop on the Brass
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What's the Mess in Vancouver?
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What the Grizz Needed…
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The Season's Question Marks
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What Went Wrong?
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From Now to June 30
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Those Last Few Days of June
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The Season's Question Marks
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After This, I'll Move On…
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Since March Madness is here and the Warriors’ season is at a point where looking to the future is a good idea, it is an excellent time to go over some of the players they could and should be looking at in the 2010 NBA Draft. 
Joel Freeland was the final pick of the 2006 NBA Draft, but he is finishing up his fourth season playing in Europe since then. What is his game looking like now and is he finally ready for the NBA?
As his rookie season winds down, it seems that the lofty expectations of Jonny Flynn have proven out of reach. Were those expectations fair to begin with? After all, this is a team with a new GM and a new coach.
After getting into a few heated exchanges with the Suns in Phoenix last Saturday, the Pacers looked as though they would at least go down with a fight over the final month of the season.
The takeaway from spending a little bit of time around the Raptors is that this feels like Jarrett Jack’s team. Beyond Bosh, Bargnani and Calderon, the team has been completely replaced in the last year and Jack represents the impact of the overhaul.
The Lakers are 34-1 when they finish games with at least 20 assists this season. They haven't passed the ball like they have in the past and it has had a direct impact on the quality of their looks and their drop in offensive efficiency.
At least on paper, the Pistons have the least talented team in the league, which is a problem compounded by where they are in terms of payroll and future cap flexibility.
Truth be told, the defensive-minded Brendan Haywood is probably the piece the Mavs needed most. Caron Butler, however, gives the team a guard that can go out and make guys like Carmelo, Kobe and Roy work extra hard on both ends of the floor, something they haven’t had in past years. 
It's like the giant elephant in the room, only we're talking about a future Hall of Fame guard and the NBA.