An Ode to the Grizzlies Franchise

If you didnt hear or didnt care, the Memphis Grizzlies fired their head coach Marc Iavaroni after an 11-30 start and in my opinion, the Grizzlies are one of the top 5 worst franchises in the four sports so we will take a look back into the Vancouver days and now the Memphis years...

-First a look at their draft history, they drafted at first Big Country Bryant Reeves who was a beast in college and failed pretty badly in the pros. He was the best player at that time with the sixth pick but one pick higher, Kevin Garnett.

-The next year was an awful decision with Shareef Abual-Rahim when they had Ryan Allen, Stephon Marbury (yes headcase but still good for a couple years) and oh yeah Kobe Bryant.

- Antonio Daniels another big time bust with Tracy McGrady still out there and given his career Tim Thomas would have been upgrade to this scrub.

- Mike Bibby was a good pick and forgot he spent two years on the Grizzlies until traded for White Chocolate himself Jason Williams and this deal was pretty good. Still Vancouver missed out on Antwan Jamison, Vince Carter, Dirk Nowitzki, and Paul Pierce. Dont get me wrong, Bibby was a good point guard but not on the level on those four guys.

- Stevie Franchise didnt even want to come to Vancouver and that was big time blow to the team as well just in general. Weird that now he is with the Memphis Grizzlies.

-They traded away every star on the franchise like Pau Gasol which was an awful trade, Shane Battier was traded to get Rudy Gay so that made sense but still he was an asset to the team. They had a playoff team for awhile and Chris Wallace really screwed everything up.

Things have started to pick up in recent years getting Mike Conley, O.J. Mayo, and Rudy Gay if they can get Blake Griffen this draft they will become a legit young team but my point is it might not be the coaches just the way the draft have gone for this team in the first couple of years. They havent had a star player like a Gasol who wanted to make Memphis a winner until they find that, they will never be a top four Western Conference team.

-Charlie.