Marc Gasol was not a happy camper on Wednesday, with the Memphis Grizzlies entering their tilt against the Phoenix Suns having lost 10 straight. He’s not about to feel any better now, knowing they lost again, to make it 11 straight letdowns. Here’s what Big Spain had to say, per the Commercial Appeal (via Bleacher Report’s Tyler [...]
March 2, 2018
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The Memphis Grizzlies are willingly putting themselves in the NBA’s rumor mill! But not because they’re holding a fire sale. As Bleacher Report’s Howard Beck noted, the Grizzlies remain unwilling to move Marc Gasol, even though they should be pouncing at the chance to sell high on their soon-to-be 33-year-old big man. Memphis is, however, [...]
January 12, 2018
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Things have gone downhill in a hurry for the Memphis Grizzlies. They have lost 16 of their last 17 games and have gone from 7-4 to last place in the western conference at 8-20. One of their stars is out recovering from Achilles and heel soreness, but the other has been slogging away with the [...]
December 14, 2017
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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 [...]
December 4, 2017
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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 [...]
December 1, 2017
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Memphis Grizzlies general manager Chris Wallace has confirmed what David Fizdale’s firing suggested all along: His team has no imminent plans to trade Mike Conley and/or Marc Gasol and cannonball into a rebuild. As Wallace explained on Wednesday, per ESPN.com’s Tim MacMahon: Grizzlies GM Chris Wallace won’t consider rebuilding by trading stars Marc Gasol or [...]
November 30, 2017
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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 [...]
November 30, 2017
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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 [...]
November 29, 2017
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The proverbial you-know-what has been hitting the fan in Memphis the past few weeks. The Grizzlies, currently losers of eight straight games, fired their head coach David Fizdale yesterday after he benched Marc Gasol and are now dealing with rumors of blowing the team up. According to Chris Mannix of Yahoo Sports, it appears other [...]
November 29, 2017
Anou Enright
Ryan Bawek
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 [...]
November 28, 2017
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