The Memphis Grizzlies are in a bad spot right now; they’re 10th in the West with a record of 17-22, and their superstar, Ja Morant, is ready to be traded.
Because of that, the organization is catching flak, and from people they didn’t expect. One of those people is former Grizzlies star Dillon Brooks. In an interview about his trade from the Houston Rockets to the Phoenix Suns, he took a shot at Memphis, saying that trading him is what led to their fall-off.
"[Stone] was telling me the whole time that they didn't want to have my name in it. They wanted to keep me to build more and more to that franchise. But overall, when you got a guy like Kevin Durant, you cannot pass up on it. And they're doing well. They haven't fell off -- like Memphis did,” Brooks stated (via Tim MacMahon).
In a way, Brook is right. In his time with Memphis, the Grizzlies made the playoffs three out of six times, and without Brooks, they’ve made it once.
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As for the other teams he’s joined, the Rockets went from 22-60 to 41-41 in his first year, then made the playoffs the next. And now, the Suns are 24-16 and seventh in the West, when they were 34-46 last season.
Hopefully, the Grizzlies find a way to stop this fall off and make Brooks eat his words.
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