As the start of the 2022-23 NBA season grows nearer, I'm taking a closer look at some of the most interesting teams in the NBA (to me, if not necessarily to anyone else). After stops in Denver. New Orleans, and Minnesota, we're putting 10 toes down in Memphis, where the team behind last season's best story must now start writing a new chapter.
While it's impossible not to find Morant's fire intoxicating, there are all sorts of reasons to believe the Grizzlies can't replicate what they did last season. Like, for starters, the fact that winning 56 games is. Going back to 2004, a span of 15 full seasons not counting campaigns shortened by a lockout or a pandemic,— just under four a year. Just two teams did it last season, and the competition promises to be even fiercer this time around.
Memphis skyrocketed to the second seed in a conference that saw two recent conference finalists, the Clippers and Nuggets, decimated by injuries; both teams are now healthy and deeper than ever. The Timberwolves added Rudy Gobert and the Pelicans got back Zion Williamson; both have their sights set a hell of a lot higher than another trip to the play-in tournament. The Suns and Warriors, for all their drama, return championship-level rosters.
The most significant news of Memphis's offseason — well, besides Ja's supermax — came just before the start of free agency, when the team announced that JacksonA recovery timeline pegged at four to six months means Jackson will miss at least the start of the season; if it's closer to the far end of that projection, Memphis could be without its All-Defensive First Team linchpin for nearly 40 percent of the season.
A lengthy absence for Jackson seems like dire straits for Memphis. The Grizzlies' defense went from top-two-caliber with JJJ last season to middle-of-the-pack in points allowed per possession when he sat. Most of their
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