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For Mike Conley to confirm that David Fizdale and Marc Gasol weren’t the best of friends, you know the relationship between player and coach must’ve been bad. During an extensive interview with the Commercial Appeal‘s Ronald Tillery, the point guard didn’t sidestep the string of rumors emanating from the Memphis Grizzlies organization. He told Tillery that [...]

Who ordered yet another Marc Gasol-David Fizdale update, with extra salt? Details surrounding the relationship between the All-Star center and the Memphis Grizzlies’ former head coach continue to trickle out in the aftermath of the latter’s firing. We know Gasol complained about being benched during the second half of Memphis’ Sunday loss to the Brooklyn [...]

Details about the Marc Gasol-David Fizdale relationship that wasn’t continue to trickle out. The latest comes from USA Today‘s Sam Amick and Jeff Zillgitt, who heard that when the Memphis Grizzlies fired their head coach, he and Big Spain hadn’t really spoken over the past 10 months: But while the widespread confusion about the Fizdale move [...]

Marc Gasol won’t be accepting any responsibility for the Memphis Grizzlies firing David Fizdale on Monday. Many are of the mind that his less-than-warm relationship with the head coach contributed to the decision just as much, if not more, than the team’s recent 2-11 stretch. The two have apparently been on rocky terms for quite some [...]

Marc Gasol might be relieved that the Memphis Grizzlies fired head coach David Fizdale on Monday. But some members of the Cleveland Cavaliers sure as hell aren’t. Dwyane Wade, who played under Fizdale during his time as an assistant with the Miami Heat, was the first to respond: [tweet https://twitter.com/DwyaneWade/status/935263536372174848] LeBron James, who also played [...]

David Fizdale didn’t even make it through one-and-a-half seasons as head coach of the Memphis Grizzlies. The Grizzlies elected to fire the second-year clipboard-carrier 19 games in 2017-18, as first reported by ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski, for reasons that aren’t totally clear. Sure, the team is 7-12, their playoff hopes fading fast. But they’ve dealt with [...]

Mike Conley hasn’t looked great to start the season. He’s shooting under 39 percent from the floor overall, just over 31 percent from three and not having a profound impact on the Memphis Grizzlies offense. They’re actually scoring slightly more points per 100 possessions when he’s off the court—an unsettling split that runs counter to [...]

The Grizzlies will begin the 2016-17 campaign against the upstart and suddenly frisky (most would assume) Minnesota Timberwolves Wednesday night in the Grind House. It won’t be the Grizzlies debut of Chandler Parsons unfortunately who will be sitting the game out, but it will be the first game as head coach for longtime Miami Heat [...]

Chandler Parsons’ Memphis Grizzlies tenure is not off to the most ideal start. After missing the Dallas Mavericks’ final 18 regular-season games last year due to knee surgery, which is also how his 2014-15 campaign ended, Parsons continues his path back toward the hardwood—a journey that, unfortunately for Memphis, won’t include a cameo in its [...]

Once the calendar hit 2016 in the 2015-16 season the injury bug wreaked havoc on an aging Grizzlies squad as legitimately every core player of their team, Marc Gasol, Mike Conley, Zach Randolph and Tony Allen dealt with injuries. It seemed like the Grit and Grind era of basketball in Memphis was dead as we [...]