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Grizzlies' Options After Devastating Injury News Revealed

The Memphis Grizzlies have some options after the Steven Adams injury news
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Grizzlies' Options After Devastating Injury News Revealed
Grizzlies' Options After Devastating Injury News Revealed

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The Memphis Grizzlies announced the devastating injury news on Sunday that starting center Steven Adams would miss the entire 2023-24 season. Now without Adams and Brandon Clarke to start the season, Memphis is very thin up front, but they do have some options that were revealed by ESPN's Bobby Marks:

According to Marks, the Grizzlies can file a Disabled Player Exception, move Ja Morant to the suspended list and sign a replacement player beginning on November 2nd, and use their $12.4M non-tax midlevel, $7.5M trade, or $4.5M biannual exception. One of these options will presumably be how Memphis addresses their front court situation now that Adams is done for the year.

The loss of Adams is a big one for the Grizzlies, because while his name does not usually get mentioned alongside Ja Morant, Jaren Jackson Jr., Desmond Bane, and others, he is vital to what Memphis does on both ends of the court. With his screening and passing out of the center position, Adams helps open things up for the Grizzlies offensively. With his interior defense, Adams also holds down the paint which allows Jackson to be the best version of himself defensively.

With just a few days before the season begins, it will be hard for Memphis to make an appropriate move before then, but they will almost certainly address this new roster hole sooner rather than later.

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Joey Linn
JOEY LINN

Joey Linn is a credentialed writer covering the NBA and WNBA for On SI. Covering the LA Clippers independently in 2018, then for Fansided and 213Hoops from 2019-2021, Joey joined On SI to cover the Clippers after the 2020-21 season. Graduating from Biola University in 2022 with a Communication Studies degree, Joey served as Biola's play-by-play announcer for their basketball, baseball, softball, and soccer teams. Joey's work on Biola's broadcasts and in the classroom earned him the Outstanding Communication Studies Student of the year award in 2022. Joey covers the NBA full-time, primarily serving as a Clippers beat writer.

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