With their season on the brink, the Grizzlies play their final seeding game Thursday against the league-leading Milwaukee Bucks.
in the Western Conference with a huge 61-point performance Tuesday night. They were in position to do so because the Memphis Grizzlies stumbled again.
Memphis entered the season restart with a 3½-game lead on Portland for eighth and looked to be in good shape to get back to the playoffs. Two weeks later, the Grizzlies are in danger of missing out on the postseason.to the Boston Celtics. Memphis fell to 1-6 during the restart. Starting forward Jaren Jackson Jr. was lost for the season with a knee injury after three games, derailing an upstart team that had hopes of making the playoffs in what was thought to be another rebuilding year.
"I feel like every game we play, the underdog," said Ja Morant, the leading candidate for Rookie of the Year."We were projected to be 27th this year and we're here. So that's how we've been attacking every game. I feel like our next game won't be no different." The Grizzlies are tied with the Phoenix Suns and San Antonio Spurs. Still, Memphis controls its own destiny. A win Thursday clinches a spot in the West play-in. The Grizzlies could lose Thursday and still make the play-in, but they would need help."We've got a chance against the best team in the league on Thursday and whatever we throw out at them, we got to throw it all out on the line and see what happens after that," Jenkins said.
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