Coming into tonight, the Memphis Grizzlies had lost 23 of their last 24 games (including a 61-point blowout to the Charlotte Hornets last week) and had not won on the road since December 31, 2017. Certainly a team willfully tanking would pose little to no threat against a Minnesota Timberwolves team that has won 19 out of 22 games against Western Conference foes at the Target Center this season.
Alas, that unfortunately was not the case as the Grizzlies decided to ditch their tanking regimen and make things interesting by playing the role of playoff spoiler tonight.