After Memphis signed him away from Rio Grande in January, Caboclo played in 34 games (19 starts) and averaged 8.3 points, 4.5 rebounds and 1.5 assists while shooting 36.9% from three-point range in 23.5 minutes per contest—all career-high marks. “They welcomed me from the first day. Marc Gasol was there, he treated me very well before he was traded,” Caboclo said. “The coaches were amazing and always supported players with everything we needed. Memphis was a great place for me.”
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John Hollinger: I expect Melton to get offers for the full midlevel exception; the only question is whether a rebuilding cap-room team like Atlanta, Charlotte or Detroit would have the stones to go beyond that. In either case, the Grizzlies are protected by the Arenas rule, meaning that the first two years of any offers sheet to Melton could only be for the MLE, but the money could potentially increase in subsequent years. The most likely endgame to me is him returning to Memphis on a lesser version of the Brooks deal — something on the order of three years, $30 million.
During his current basketball downtime, Grizzlies forward Jaren Jackson Jr. isn’t afraid of spreading some springtime cheer. In conjunction with the Tennessee Department of Education, the second-year pro from Michigan State made a short video congratulating the 2020 graduating class.
“Shout out to the graduating Class of 2020 in Tennessee,” said Jackson, in the 28-second clip. “You guys overcame so much to get to this point … worked crazy hard. I know things have been weird; I know things have been hard especially at a time right now.But I want to say that everybody’s celebrating your accomplishments — me included. You have so much growing more to do in life. You’ve been leading up to this point; you’re going to continue to lead in your own way, so congratulations.”
Add Anthony Tolliver to the list of players who believe there’s strong support throughout the league for finishing the season. Tolliver, a member of the NBPA executive committee, offered some insight into the players’ position during an interview with Darren Wolfson of KSTP .
“I don’t think there’s any doubt that guys want to play, and I think guys want to do it in a safe way,” Tolliver said. “We need to figure out a way where we’re not putting the assistant coaches, especially the older people who would be in that environment, as long as we’re not putting them in serious health risk — I think that’s going to be the biggest key. Guys want to play ball. Guys don’t want to lose money. I think that as long as we have the protocols in place that everybody’s confident in, that’s whenever things will start to pick up some momentum.”
This week, the Memphis Grizzlies joined the Denver Nuggets, Cleveland Cavaliers and Portland Trail Blazers among the NBA teams who have reopened their practice facility to voluntary, individual player workouts, following protocols of both the NBA and local health officials, per a team source. The source declined to divulge which players have used the facility.
