The Memphis Grizzlies Are Circling The Drain
Photo: Gerald Herbert (AP) Throughout the first half of the NBA season, the Western Conference standings were an intractable mess, with 14 teams all harboring legitimate hopes of nabbing a playoff spot. Young upstarts like the Mavericks and Kings threatened the balance of power, while established playoff mainstays like the Pelicans, the Jazz, and somehow the Rockets faltered. Something was inevitably going to break—it would be wholly unprecedented for essentially an entire conference’s worth of teams to seriously contend for the playoffs—and it seems the first unfortunate squad to drop out...
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