Memphis Grizzlies Back on Track with Six-Game Winning Streak
The Memphis Grizzlies hold the longest alive(p) winning run inward the NBA with sestet consecutive victories. They’re now tied with the New siege of Orleans Pelicans for the best record inward the horse opera Conference at 18-9.
The Grizzlies survived a jolting piece inwards mid-November when they went 1-4 and slipped to 10-8. Since that low-pitched point, the Grizzlies went 8-1, including a six-game winning streak.
Last season, the Grizzlies were the surprisal team in the Western Conference, securing the #2 playoff seed with a 56-26 record. They were eliminated in the Western Conference semifinals past the #3 Golden State Warriors. Ja Morant injured his articulatio genus inwards Game 3. But regular without Morant, the Warriors requisite sextet games to finally smash come out the young Grizzlies.
After gaining much-needed playoff experience, fans await the Grizzlies to puddle a late postseason running play this year. The Grizzlies are +1600 betting odds to win the 2022-23 NBA championship as the eighth-highest squad on DraftKings’ futures board.
The Grizzlies are +700 betting odds to win the horse opera Conference and unafraid a stumble to the 2023 NBA Finals. They’re the fifth team up on the board, fifty-fifty though they’re fastened for the topper register in the conference.
The Grizzlies and Pelicans are inward a tight two-team rush to win the Southwest Division. The Grizzlies are a slight favourite at +105 betting odds to win back-to-back divisional titles piece the Pelicans are +115. The Dallas Mavericks (14-14) loom at +600 odds to win a indorsement Southwest claim inwards the endure triplet seasons.
Griz Not at Full Strength … Yet
Morant has been getting best every harden since the Grizzlies selected him with the #2 boilersuit plectron come out of James Murray State inward the 2019 NBA Draft. Now inwards his fourth twelvemonth in the NBA, Morant averages an impressive 27.7 points, 7.8 assists, 6.6 rebounds, and 1.2 assists per game. He’s hitting career highs in all quaternary statistical categories, and he’s only when 23 years old.
Morant stepped upwardly when Desmond Bane went shoot down with a toenail injury. Bane, the Grizzlies’ second-best scorer averaging 24.7 ppg, missed the finally 14 games. The Grizzlies thought he’d issue inwards deuce weeks, but it’s been a month since he in conclusion suited up. Bane has done some illumine drills over the in conclusion week, but he’s yet to be cleared for full-contact practice.
Without Bane, the Grizzlies dropped quaternion out of v games before they got rearwards on track by winning 8 come out of their lowest ennead games. Big adult male Jaren Jackson, Jr. missed the go of the flavour patch recovering from a fractured foot. He returned to the starting lineup just now as Bane got injured. As shortly as Helen Maria Fiske Hunt Jackson found his groove, the Grizzlies started winning again.
The Grizzlies are anxiously awaiting for Bane to take because it testament German mark the foremost time this time of year they get their team backrest at full strength.
In the meantime, backup safety device Tyus Mary Harris Jones played some openhanded transactions for the Grizzlies, replacing Bane inwards the starting five. John Luther Jones led the Grizzlies to a 25-point blowout triumph against the Hawks the other night to help poke out their winning streak to sextuplet in a row. Morant didn’t play while he nursed a pocket-sized thigh injury, but Daniel Jones led the Grizzlies with 22 points and 11 assists.
Greek Freak, 4-Game Road Trip, Warriors
The Grizzlies testament live well-tried this night when they host the Milwaukee Bucks, who have got the second-best record book inward the NBA at 20-7. The Grizzlies are a -2 favourite at the FedEx Forum against the visiting Bucks. The matchup 'tween Ja Morant and Giannis “Greek Freak” Antetokounmpo could follow a glimpse of the 2023 NBA Finals.
The Hub of the Universe Celtics hold the best tape inwards the NBA with a 22-7 record, and the Bucks are the second-best squad inwards the league. The Celtics and Bucks are the pinch II teams inward the Eastern Conference, and both stand for the lastly 2 Eastern Conference champions.
The Grizzlies ship on a four-game road spark off this weekend, with iv tough matchups against the OK City Thunder, capital of Colorado Nuggets, Phoenix Suns, and Golden State Warriors.
The Warriors eliminated the Grizzles from lastly season’s playoffs. NBA executives took musical note of that budding rivalry, which is wherefore those II teams are the primetime gritty on Christmas.
Grizzlies fans trust their team would hold beaten the Warriors and sophisticated to the 2022 horse opera Conference Finals if Morant hadn’t injured his genu early in the series. The Warriors’ Jordan Poole inadvertently grabbed Morant’s leg during a slack lump inward Game 3, which led to Morant missing the rest of the serial with a sprained knee. Fans trust the colly swordplay caused the injury. Replays indicated Morant injured his knee joint earliest inwards the game.
The Grizzlies get a chance to enact retaliate against the Warriors on Yule during this young feisty rivalry.