Memphis Grizzlies 2024-25 NBA Championship Betting
What a difference a year makes. Or more specifically, what a difference a player makes. Ja Morant was able to play in enough games this season to get the Memphis Grizzlies into the play-in round. Last year, his absence cost the Grizzlies a postseason bid. However, the Grizzlies limped into the postseason after having to make a coaching change. Memphis fired Taylor Jankins for supposedly losing the locker room and having tactical disagreements on the offense with the front office. Also, it was said that Jenkins did not connect with Morant. In the first round of the 2025 NBA Playoffs, the Grizzlies lost 4-0 to the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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The Memphis Grizzlies' final regular-season record was 48-34 straight up, 41-40-1 against the spread, and 45-35 over/under the total. Memphis was 8th in the Western Conference playoff standings, 20 games behind the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Memphis's NBA metrics were 4th for scoring offense, 8th for field goal percentage, 13th for 3-point field goal percentage, 12th for free throw percentage, and 2nd for offensive rebounding. On defense, Memphis was 22nd for scoring defense, 4th for field goal percentage permitted, 15th for 3-point field goal percentage allowed, and 9th for defensive rebounding.
Key Players
PG Ja Morant was averaging 25.1 points and 5.6 rebounds per game before his injury last year. In turn, this season, Morant is averaging 23.2 points and 7.3 assists per game. Morant was the 2nd overall pick of the 2019 NBA Draft out of Murray State by the Grizzlies. He is a 2-time NBA All-Star.
SG Desmond Bane averaged 23.7 points and 5.5 assists per game last season in only 42 games. Thus, Memphis is without its two most productive players. This year, Bane was averaging 19.2 points per contest.
In 2023-24, PF Jaren Jackson Jr. averaged 22.5 points and 5.5 rebounds per game. The Grizzlies selected Jackson as the fourth overall pick in the 2018 NBA Draft out of Michigan State. He is a two-time NBA All-Star, including this year, and was the 2023 NBA Defensive Player of the Year. This year, Jackson averaged 22.2 points and 5.6 rebounds per contest.
Head Coach
Head coach Taylor Jenkins was an NBA assistant for several seasons before taking over the Grizzlies in 2019. Jenkins has a career record of 250-214 with three playoff appearances. Last year, he faced the biggest challenge of his coaching career without his two top players. Memphis gave him a mulligan and expected a rebound in the season ahead. Instead, Jenkins was fired with nine games remaining in the season. Tuomas Iasalo is the interim HC.
Season-by-Season Record (Last 7)
| SEASON |
GAMES |
WINS |
LOSSES |
FINISH |
PLAYOFFS |
| 2024–25 |
82 |
48 |
34 |
2nd, Southwest |
Lost in First Round, 0–4 (Thunder) |
| 2023–24 |
82 |
27 |
55 |
4th, Southwest |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2022–23 |
82 |
51 |
31 |
1st, Southwest |
Lost in First Round, 2–4 (Lakers) |
| 2021–22 |
82 |
56 |
26 |
1st, Southwest |
Lost in Conference Semifinals, 2–4 (Warriors) |
| 2020–21 |
72 |
38 |
34 |
2nd, Southwest |
Lost in First Round, 1–4 (Jazz) |
| 2019–20 |
73 |
34 |
39 |
3rd, Southwest |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2018–19 |
82 |
33 |
49 |
3rd, Southwest |
Did Not Qualify |
Memphis Grizzlies History
Few teams in the NBA are more anonymous than the Memphis Grizzlies. Memphis has never won a championship of any kind since joining the NBA as an expansion team in Vancouver, where they operated from 1995 through 2001. They were one of the worst teams of all time in their six seasons in Canada, never winning more than 23 games in a season before their move to Memphis.
Since moving to Memphis for the 2001-02 season, the Grizzlies have been more successful. They made the playoffs for the first time during the 2004-05 season, and they made the postseason for three straight seasons.
The 2010s were the most successful period for the Memphis Grizzlies. The Grit and Grind Grizzlies went to the playoffs for seven straight seasons, and they were a tough out in the playoffs with veterans like Zach Randolph and Tony Allen and young center Marc Gasol. Their most successful run came during the 2012-13 season when the Grizzlies knocked off the Los Angeles Clippers and Oklahoma City Thunder to reach the Western Conference Finals. Unfortunately, they were swept in the conference finals by the San Antonio Spurs.
Memphis is in a position to challenge for supremacy in the Western Conference once again with a new collection of young, talented players highlighted by Ja Morant. The Grizzlies went 56-26 during the 2021-22 season, and they showed that they weren’t scared of the five-time champion Golden State Warriors.
NBA Teams
Eastern Conference - Atlantic
Eastern Conference - Central
Eastern Conference - Southeast
Western Conference - Northwest
Western Conference - Pacific
Western Conference - Southwest
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