Hooped Up

Memphis Grizzlies keep their cool, rally past Chicago Bulls, 105-96
Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins called for time with his team trailing by 17 points in the second quarter, and tried to simply remain calm. He didn’t want panic to set in. Forward Zach Randolph said his message was intended to be more like banging the snooze button on an alarm clock.

“You’ve just got to wake up,” Randolph said after amassing 31 points and 18 rebounds to help the Grizzlies rally for a 105-96 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Thursday night in the United Center.

Randolph wasn’t the only Grizzlies player who heard the alarm. Each member of the starting unit got going at different points as the Griz extended their franchise-record road winning streak to six games.
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Did you know the fan base for Allen Iverson in Tanzania is huge? Probably not, because I just made that up. So why the heck would the Grizzlies donate 3,000 Iverson jerseys to Tanzania, especially since Memphis rookie Hasheem Thabeet was the first player born in Tanzania to play in the NBA? Read More »

Sh!t is hard out there for a Grizzly! These guys just can’t seem to put together anything good this season and things just got worse after Z-Bo went accidentally D-Bo and broke the jaw of Hasheem Thabeet. Mama said there would be season like this.

The second overall pick in the 2009 draft, was already having a rough start to the season, but that was to be expected since he’s regarded as a project. His primary goal was simply to find some playing time and develop for the future. Unfortunately, that’s not possible for the foreseeable future after breaking his jaw in a collision with Zach Randolph.

Seriously, if the Grizzlies would have just stayed in Vancouver nothing would have changed except there proximity to Japan. If you’re a Grizzlies fan, you definitely have heart. Awful!

via Fanhouse

First-round draft pick Hasheem Thabeet has signed with the Memphis Grizzlies.

The 7-foot-3 center from Connecticut was the second pick in the draft. Thabeet is due to make about $7.7 million over two years under the rookie salary scale.

Thabeet is the first Tanzanian-born player drafted by an NBA team. He averaged 13.6 points, nearly 11 rebounds and 4 blocks per game at UConn last season and was named Big East co-player of the year.

Thabeet is also second on the Big East’s all-time blocked shots list behind Patrick Ewing.

Press Release

Hasheem Thabeet remembers why he used to make people laugh when he first stepped onto an American basketball court.

“When I got here for high school, people said I couldn’t walk, chew gum and dribble a basketball at the same time,” Thabeet said. “It was the joke. But I’ve grown a lot.”

He can say that again.Thabeet grew to stand 7-3, and the center out of the University of Connecticut became even bigger Thursday night when the Grizzlies made him the No. 2 overall pick in the NBA draft.

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