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Keep up with the latest Memphis Grizzlies Basketball News. The Southwest Division Grizzlies are led by a number of great players including Ja Morant, Desmond Bane and also shooting guard Jaren Jackson Jr.. Taylor Jenkins is the head coach of the team and he will expect his team to play hard each and every night. Will the team have the right chemistry this season to make another playoff run and win an NBA championship?

Memphis Grizzlies Basketball News

GG Jackson To Undergo Surgery On Broken Foot

While playing basketball outside of Dallas on August 27, after attempting a contested layup, GG Jackson II experienced an unstable landing on his right foot. Subsequent imaging revealed a broken [...]

RealGM Radio: Rob Mahoney, Matt Moore On The Southwest Division (2024)

Host Danny Leroux, Rob Mahoney of The Ringer and Matt Moore of The Action Network go in-depth on the NBA's Southwest Division. They discuss how the Rockets, Pelicans, Spurs, Mavericks [...]

Diamond Sports Group May Drop Broadcasts For Mavericks, Pistons, Grizzlies, Pelicans, Thunder

If, and when, Diamond Sports Group finishes bankruptcy proceedings, they are considering dropping the broadcasts for up to five NBA teams. The teams that are being considered at the Dallas [...]

Luke Kennard, Grizzlies Agree To One-Year, $11M Deal

Luke Kennard and the Memphis Grizzlies have agreed to a one-year, $11 million contract. Kennard averaged 11 points and 3.5 assists while shooting 45 percent on three-pointers for the Grizzlies [...]

Yuki Kawamura, Grizzlies Sign Exhibit 10 Contract

The Memphis Grizzlies signed Yuki Kawamura to an Exhibit-10 deal, reported the Yokohama B-Corsairs. The 23-year-old is set to join Memphis in September and will continue to play for Yokohama [...]

Grizzlies Sign Jay Huff To Two-Way Contract, Waive Trey Jemison

The Memphis Grizzlies have agreed to sign Jay Huff to a Two-Way contract. The Grizzlies also waived Trey Jemison to create a Two-Way spot. Huff went undrafted out of Virginia [...]

Heat Beat Grizzlies To Win Summer League Title

The Miami Heat beat the Memphis Grizzlies 120-118 in overtime to win the 2024 Summer League title. Pelle Larsson scored the game-winning bucket for the Heat. "They did a good [...]

Grizzlies Trade Ziaire Williams, 2030 2nd Round Pick To Nets For Mamadi Diakite

The Memphis Grizzlies have agreed to trade Ziaire Williams and a 2030 second round pick originating from the Dallas Mavericks to the Brooklyn Nets for Mamadi Diakite. Williams was the [...]

Ja Morant Medically Cleared For Full Contact

Ja Morant has been medically cleared for full-contact work, according to Memphis Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins. Morant had surgery to repair a labral tear in his right shoulder six months [...]

Cam Spencer, Grizzlies Sign Two-Way Contract

The Memphis Grizzlies signed Cam Spencer to a two-way contract. Memphis acquired Spencer's draft rights from the Detroit Pistons, after Spencer was selected with the 53rd pick in the 2024 [...]

Grizzlies Hire Tuomas Iisalo As Assistant Coach

The Memphis Grizzlies hired Tumoas Iisalo as an assistant coach, reported Donatas Urbonas of BasketNews. Iisalo reportedly signed a three-year deal with the Grizzlies. Iisalo is also set to coach [...]

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- Gio Rivera

Marcus Smart offered ex-teammate and Boston Celtics trade deadline acquisition Xavier Tillman a piece of advice before parting ways with the Memphis Grizzlies. Smart spent nine seasons with the Celtics, [...]

- Adam London

The Grizzlies-Celtics matchup was almost secondary to another attraction at TD Garden on Sunday night. Marcus Smart, who played the first nine seasons of his NBA career in Boston, made [...]

- Gio Rivera
Celtics Embrace Marcus Smart After ‘Special’ Return To Boston

BOSTON — Former Celtics guard Marcus Smart returned to TD Garden on Sunday night for the first time since being traded this past offseason to the Memphis Grizzlies, and the [...]

- Greg Dudek

Former Celtics guard Marcus Smart didn’t come empty-handed in his return to Boston on Sunday evening. The veteran guard brought with him a message to Celtics fans after being traded [...]

- Adam London

Marcus Smart reportedly is generating trade interest with the NBA’s deadline fast approaching. According to Bleacher Report’s Jake Fischer, “several” teams, including the Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers, [...]

- Gio Rivera

Marcus Smart sat in the driver’s seat for the Memphis Grizzlies during their Tuesday night battle against the Dallas Mavericks, and it paid off. Amid what’s been a chaotic season [...]

- Keagan Stiefel

Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant played well Friday, scoring 21 points, grabbing five boards and dishing out seven assists in a victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. That proved to [...]

- Gio Rivera

Grizzlies guard Marcus Smart has remained in recovery mode since going down with a sprained ankle on Nov. 14, leaving Memphis in a sinking state in the Western Conference early [...]

- Gio Rivera
Celtics Rumors: Boston’s ‘Kept Tabs’ On Veteran Grizzlies Forward

The Boston Celtics have been dominant, leading the Eastern Conference with an NBA-best 14-4 record thus far, but there’s still a looming early-season concern that’s come into play on multiple [...]

- Sean T. McGuire

Boston Celtics fans are well-aware how important playing with energy and effort is to Marcus Smart. And if they didn’t know it already, Smart’s new teammates understand it as well. [...]

- Gayle Troiani

The Boston Celtics defeated the Memphis Grizzlies, 102-100 at FedExForum on Sunday to extend their winning streak to six games. With the win, the Celtics improved to 11-2 on the [...]

- Tim Crowley

Marcus Smart was a staple of the Boston Celtics for nearly a decade. In order to retool the roster for another shot at a championship, Smart headed to the Memphis [...]

- Gio Rivera

Marcus Smart grew as both a fan- and teammate-favorite throughout a nine-year run with the Boston Celtics. Before being traded to the Memphis Grizzlies in part for Kristaps Porzingis during [...]

- Gio Rivera

UPDATE (6:05 p.m. ET): The Athletic’s Shams Charania reported Friday, citing sources, that Marcus Smart is expected to miss multiple weeks with a left ankle injury. Charania later added Smart [...]

- Gio Rivera

Former Celtics guard Marcus Smart was thrown into a whole new situation for the 2023-24 season after being traded away from Boston in the offseason, and it hasn’t been easy. [...]

- Gayle Troiani

Marcus Smart has done everything he can on the court but the Memphis Grizzlies are off to an abysmal 2-8 start and sit at the bottom of the Western Conference. [...]

- Adam London

“No! … Yes!” That expression surely was used by Celtics fans countless times over the course of Marcus Smart’s nine-year tenure in Boston. Smart has a penchant for salvaging a [...]

- Adam London

There hasn’t been much for Grizzlies fans to get excited about early in the season, but that changed Sunday night. Memphis finally recorded its first win of the 2023-24 campaign [...]

- Gio Rivera

Marcus Smart’s unintentional promotion was inevitable when the Boston Celtics dealt the 10th-year veteran to the Memphis Grizzlies in the offseason. The early-season woes, however, weren’t as foreseeable. Through five [...]

- Gio Rivera

Marcus Smart hadn’t suited up for any other team besides the Boston Celtics for the last nine seasons, but that all changed during Opening Night for the 2023-24 season. Smart, [...]

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Grizzlies' GG Jackson out indefinitely after breaking bone in right foot

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- Jack Maloney
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Clippers, Ivica Zubac agree to $58.6 million, 3-year contract extension

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Steph Curry, Warriors agree to extension through 2026-27 season

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- ESPN

All the free agency deals and signings we've seen so far as the NBA offseason continues. [...]

- Adrian Wojnarowski

Los Angeles Clippers center Ivica Zubac has agreed on a three-year, $58.6 million contract extension --- tying him to the franchise for $70 million through the 2027-2028 season, his agents [...]

- Adrian Wojnarowski

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- Kendra Andrews

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Lonnie Walker IV has agreed on a one-year deal with the Celtics, his agent, George S. Langberg of GSL Sports Group, told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski on Wednesday. [...]

- Tim MacMahon

Grizzlies forward GG Jackson II broke the fifth metatarsal in his right foot during a workout earlier this week and will undergo surgery, the team announced. [...]

- Kalan Hooks

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