MEMPHIS – Summing up the Grizzlies progress through the first half of a turbulent and complex NBA season is a rather simple task.
Here’s the short of it: They haven’t lost any ground, yet they’ve gained plenty of perspective.
Despite facing one of the NBA’s most difficult early schedules, a health-and-safety protocol pause that parked them for almost two weeks and players having missed nearly 150 combined games to injury recovery, there’s another encouraging and enduring truth for Memphis.
The Grizzlies are well positioned to keep building toward a second-half breakthrough. A team that has already withstood a full season worth of adversity will return from the break staring at the most demanding closing stretch in the league: 40 games in a span of 68 days.