It’s not supposed to happen that a team finishes dead last one season then surges into triumphant championship contention the next. Standard convention says that it takes time to traverse that distance
It happened on the final play of a two-point loss to the Phoenix Suns. The Memphis Grizzlies were trying to avoid a second straight defeat having had their 11-game winning streak broken a few days earlier
And so ends a thrilling, controversial, chaotic, and baffling era in the NBA. Back in July 2019, Brooklyn Nets general manager Sean Marks made a massive franchise-altering decision to ditch the humble but successful grassroots rebuild he’d embarked upon to that point…