Marko Jaric News

She already sounds like a budding cover girl...even if it's Parenting and not Vogue .

That's about the Long and Short of it for the Memphis Grizzlies as they play the Rockets Wednesday night in Houston.. The Grizz getting busy with only 10-players on the active list.

Five modestly hopeful predictions for this Griz season: This year's edition of the Memphis Grizzlies will begin the season - their ninth in Memphis - with as wide a range of possibility as any squad in franchise history.

This is not the Allen Iverson fans wanted to see on opening night. Opening night! The Grizzlies open the 2009-2010 season at 7 p.m. tonight at FedExForum against the new-look, sketchy-defense, depressing-frontcourt-rotation-having Detroit Pistons, a team the Griz dispatched in a riveting but ultimately meaningless 115-94 preseason route a couple of ...

Darrell Arthur will be out for approximately four months, the Grizzlies announced this afternoon: DARRELL ARTHUR UNDERGOES SURGERY TO REPAIR PARTIALLY TORN RIGHT PECTORALIS MUSCLE Memphis, Tennessee - Memphis Grizzlies forward Darrell Arthur underwent surgery Friday afternoon to repair a partially torn right pectoralis muscle and will miss up to ...

Allen Iverson will start the season on the Grizzlies' bench... Though he's yet to play a game in a Grizzlies' uniform after suffering a torn hamstring in training camp, Allen Iverson seems to have adjusted to the team pretty well so far.

Grizzlies' open practice What: A free, open-to-the-public practice. Space is limited; fans admitted on a first-come, first-served basis.

The Grizzlies waived free-agent guard Thomas Gardner today. Gardner signed a non-guaranteed contract before the start of training camp, and wasn't expected to make the team because the team is loaded with players in the backcourt.

By Geoff Calkins , Memphis Commercial Appeal Tuesday, September 29, 2009 On his first day in uniform, Allen Iverson said the Grizzlies are his team.

The new-look Grizzlies were finally all in the same room. Everyone was accounted for except veteran guard Marko Jaric.

" The Memphis Grizzlies announced that they have mutually agreed to allow guard Marko Jaric to not join the team for training camp and the preseason, and have provided permission for Jaric's agent to seek a roster spot with another team.

The Memphis Grizzlies' chemistry experiment with Allen Iverson is under way. The biggest star ever to put on a Grizzlies' uniform joined his new teammates Monday for a media session in Memphis.

Winners : Losers : I like Mike Conley. I like OJ Mayo. I like Rudy Gay. I even like Marc Gasol.

By Geoff Calkins , Memphis Commercial Appeal Thursday, September 10, 2009 This is already worth it, isn't it? Allen Iverson is already worth it.

What on earth, you might ask, would a team like the Grizzlies - a young, impressionable and still very much rebuilding bunch - want with an aging malcontent like Allen Iverson ? Fair question, because many around the league are asking the same thing.

It's early September, and chances are good your team didn't quite patch up every hole on its roster this summer.

The Memphis Grizzlies, as I have told Chip Crain of 3 Shades of Blue , are the Detroit Lions of the NBA.A Like the NFL team I follow, the Grizzlies have an owner that tells the fans that winning is important.A At the same time, though, this same owner takes actions that contradict the stated desire to field a winner.

The answer is as simple as it's flawed: box office over basketball. The worst owner in sports, Donald T. Sterling, believes A.I. can do what No.

I'm on record as being opposed to the Grizzlies impending trade for Zach Randolph , and I'm not backing off that: I think his track record makes him too big of a gamble for a young team; I think his black-hole offense makes him a bad fit for a team trying to develop O.J. Mayo and Rudy Gay as primary scorers; and I think his stationary defense will ...

The Clippers extended Steve Novak a qualifying offer Tuesday , which makes him a restricted free agent.