LOS ANGELES -- Now it’s about playoff survival for the Memphis Grizzlies. Win three games in a row – starting with a FedExForum home-court advantage on Wednesday night – and they dam up what has been an overwhelming surge...
LOS ANGELES – After the Memphis Grizzlies’ workout Sunday on the University of Southern California’s campus, Ja Morant exhibited the confidence fans have come to know – and rely upon – during the soaring point guard’s association with the...
LOS ANGELES – Going in, the Memphis Grizzlies knew Game 3 of the Western Conference Playoffs against the Lakers was pivotal to their chances of regaining homecourt advantage. They won the second and fourth quarters by 10 points and...
The truth is every NBA team embraces the next-man-up mentality. That’s because it’s a mindset proven to be effective when injuries and/or other circumstances leave the team in a shorthanded bind.
The Ja Morant-less Memphis Grizzlies played that truth to...
In the NBA, a star that goes up doesn’t always come down in the same condition, and when he doesn’t in the first game of a playoff series, the possibility of a winning outcome – for the game and...
No! It never gets old competing in the NBA Playoffs. That’s the case if you are in the front half or the back half of your career in the “League.”
“It is still hype every single time, especially when you...
Alex Simmons absorbed her surroundings. On the front row within the Elma Roane Fieldhouse sat family members on hand for her formal introduction as the new University of Memphis women’s basketball head coach.
Two young children – her own –...
The storylines running through the Grizzlies-Lakers first-round playoff series are so plentiful and somewhat precarious that a key to Memphis emerging in the winner’s role is to not get entangled in needless drama.
The No. 2 seed in the NBA...
Hamilton High School alumni football players will converge on the city during the first weekend in May for “The Roast and Toast of Coach Botto” to honor a beloved sports hero.
“We had the idea years ago to get the...
Alex Simmons knows the value of a “basketball city” in building a successful women’s basketball program at a university invested in the growth of that program.
Simmons, who coached five seasons at Gardner-Webb, is the new coach of the University...