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Blake Griffin Isn’t Concerned About Flopping or the Criticism Surrounding It

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012

Most of the talk about Blake Griffin during the first round of the NBA Playoffs seemed to surround his flopping, or at least accusations about him going out of his way to draw fouls. Now that his Los Angeles Clippers dispatched Memphis and have moved on to face the Spurs, ...

Mike Conley and the Grizzlies Are Playing to Their Motto: They Are Just Finding Ways to Win

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

As the playoff races are heating up in the NBA and the regular season is winding down, one team out West that nobody is talking about is hitting their stride at just the right time. It’s not the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Los Angeles Lakers, or San Antonio Spurs. It’s ...

Zach Randolph: “Once we get back in place we’re gonna be a team to be reckoned with”

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

If there is one team that really wants the lockout to end without missing very many games, I would think it would be the Memphis Grizzlies. It has taken years for Memphis to build a team that can last, sustain success, and be relevant in the NBA. Last year they ...

Shane Battier: “We can’t afford to go through what the NFL is going through”

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

Just like the NFL, the players and owners in the NBA couldn’t come to an agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement before the clock struck midnight on the old agreement. Because of that, the NBA has shut down their business and they have gone into lockout mode. While the ...

Former Kansas Guard Josh Selby Doesn’t Seem Surprised That He Fell All the Way to No. 49 In the NBA Draft

Monday, June 27th, 2011

I don't like to cast aspersions on people, but Josh Selby certainly doesn't appear very smart. He doesn't look bright when he's asked in the following interview if he thought about returning to Kansas and he answers that he will probably return to Lawrence at some point in his life. ...

Shawn Kemp Explains Why He Promptly Declined Oklahoma City Thunder’s Offer to Honor Him During this Year’s NBA Playoffs

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

We're just under two hours away from Game 5 of the Western Conference semifinals series between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the upstart Memphis Grizzlies. Tip time is 8:30 pm CST from Oklahoma City. If tonight's pivotal fifth game is anything like Game 4, basketball fans won't want to miss ...

NBA Playoffs: Grizzlies Come Up Just Short Against Thunder, Drop Game 4 133-123 In Triple Overtime Thriller

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

Wow, what a game! They may not be the most marquee name teams in this year's NBA Playoffs, but the Oklahoma City THunder and Memphis Grizzlies have been putting on a show through the first four games on their Western Conference semifinals series. Game 4 on Monday night was particularly ...

Jerry West is Embarrassed That the Los Angeles Lakers Forgot How to Lose With Class

Monday, May 9th, 2011

Jerry West isn't angry that the Los Angeles Lakers lost. The former Lakers player and general manager knows the team can't win a championship every year. But he also knows that if they aren't going to win, they should at least bow out with some dignity. Instead, West watched the ...

Zach Randolph and the Memphis Grizzlies Are At It Again

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

The Memphis Grizzlies pulled off the shocker of the NBA Playoffs in the first round as the eight seed took out the No. 1 seed in the West, the San Antonio Spurs. Might that have just been the beginning of what is to come? Very quickly after ending that first-round series, ...

Lionel Hollins: “People are getting to see who we are”

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Forget the Boston Celtics “finding” themselves, forget the South Beach All-Stars in Miami, and forget everybody else. The story of the 2011 playoffs right now is the Memphis Grizzlies. The Grizzlies have pushed the number one seed in the Western Conference to the brink of elimination and they are doing ...