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The Memphis Grizzlies is a professional basketball team based in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The team is part of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Read More at Wikipedia ›Donnie Walsh, the former basketball chief in Indiana and New York, hated the NBA Draft Lottery, once calling it "a convention of losers.
"Walsh, a competitive guy, always hated being in North Jersey (now Times Square) for the lottery because it meant he wasn't doing his job and instead of basking in the excitement of sold out arenas for playoff games, it was all about a television studio and a bunch of ping-pong balls.In fact, nothing has been more aptly titled than the NBA Draft Lottery.Just like some ham-and-egger that spent the last of his paycheck on a Mega- Millions ticket, bad NBA teams gather, bring lucky trinkets or in the case of Dan Gilbert, his neurofibromatosis-afflicted son, and hope things turn out for the best.Sure a cognizant, well-designed plan, implemented over a number of years by well-respected basketball people is probably a better option than hoping your number comes up but that takes time and in our short-attention-span culture, that's the one thing few teams have...Celtics head coach Doc Rivers and Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert were amongst those announced as members of the league's new 10-member competition committee on Wednesda...
Chris Paul played with an aching right hip and Blake Griffin's sprained left knee stiffened up during the game. If the Clippers were truly a two-man team, then they ...
The Los Angeles Clippers are 0 for 2 in closeout games, and now their playoff future comes down to a decisive Game 7.Win and the franchise can savor a landmark serie...
Before last season the Memphis Grizzlies franchise had never won a playoff game and between 2006 and 2009 amassed a total of 68 wins.To put it nicely Beale Street wa...
The Memphis Grizzlies have a hangover so bad sleep was almost impossible, and they can only hope two days can help them shake the sick feeling of blowing a 27-point ...
The playoff-bound Memphis Grizzlies are in the midst of closing out the regular season with a three-game homestand and will entertain the Cleveland Cavaliers on Mond...
It's going to be tough for the Los Angeles Clippers to come up with an encore for their Game 1 performance when they resume their Western Conference quarterfinals se...
The Los Angeles Clippers stunned the Memphis Grizzlies on Sunday, overcoming a 27-point second-half deficit to win, 99-98, in Game 1 of their Western Conference quar...
The Indiana Pacers' Frank Vogel and the Memphis Grizzlies' Lionel Hollins have been named the top coaches for the Eastern and Western Conference, respectively, for A...
Rudy Gay scored 21 points and had a key block in the final seconds as the Memphis Grizzlies won their fourth straight, 93-89 over the Portland Trail Blazers on Satur...
The Memphis Grizzlies are headed to the postseason for a second straight year and will play their final road game of the regular season tonight against the moribund ...
The playoff-bound Memphis Grizzlies will close out the regular season with a three-game homestand starting with Saturday's matchup against the Portland Trail Blazers...
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling doesn't have a sparkling reputation as being a competent man in charge.Year after year, the "other" team in Tinseltown had...
The Los Angeles Clippers refused to let a third chance to knock the Memphis Grizzlies out of the playoffs slip away.Kenyon Martin scored seven of his 11 points in th...
Chris Paul set the pace with 19 points, nine rebounds and four assists, and the LA Clippers ousted the Memphis Grizzlies, 82-72, in an intensely physical Western Con...
The banged-up Clippers may have lost far more than a basketball game and a chance to close out the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday.Los Angeles' two best players went ...
Mike Conley hit the go-ahead three-pointer, Marc Gasol poured in 23 points and the Memphis Grizzlies lived to fight another day with a 90-88 victory over the LA Clip...
This time, the fourth quarter belonged to the Memphis Grizzlies.Long the domain of the Clippers' Chris Paul, it was the Grizzlies who rallied in the closing minutes ...
Clippers forward Caron Butler broke his left hand Sunday in Game 1 of Los Angeles' series against the Memphis Grizzlies.Butler had 12 points and two rebounds in 23 m...
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