Grizzlies cobble together lineup after 13 players ruled out

The season from hell continues for the Memphis Grizzlies.

The Grizzlies discovered themselves in fairly the conundrum for Sunday’s sport in opposition to the Boston Celtics. Xavier Tillman, Derrick Rose, Vince Williams Jr, John Konchar and Santi Aldama have been all ruled out with accidents on the day of. 

Meanwhile, Ziaire Williams and Jaren Jackson Jr. received ruled out the day earlier than with accidents of their very own. Those seven players joined the Grizzlies’ longer-term absentees — Brandon Clarke, Ja Morant, Marcus Smart, Desmond Bane, Jake LaRavia and newly-acquired Victor Oladipo.

For these preserving rating at residence, that’s 13 (!) players ruled with harm for one sport. As a outcome, their solely two standard-contract players left standing from the beginning of the yr (Luke (*13*) and David Roddy) have been primarily despatched out to play in opposition to Boston with the Bad News Bears. 

Tim MacMahon of ESPN famous that the Grizzlies trotted out three players on two-way contracts (Scotty Pippen Jr., GG Jackson and Jacob Gilyard) and three players on 10-day hardship offers (Trey Jemison, Matthew Hurt and Tosan Evbuomwan) to satisfy the eight-player minimal in an effort to keep away from a forfeit.