Iverson and Memphis

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.

The Memphis Grizzlies are close to signing Allen Iverson. It would be for a 1 year deal, because 1 year is all you can risk on The Truth and then you might find you can’t handle the Truth.

Memphis apparently is Iverson’s best – and only – NBA opportunity at this point. No other team has publicly emerged as an Iverson suitor. The Griz offered Iverson a reserve role paying at least $3.5 million or what it has remaining under the salary cap.

The offer could be as much as $4.4 million should the Griz renounce their rights to Spanish guard Juan Carlos Navarro. The deal still is less than the $5 million Memphis originally considered paying Iverson.
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Now to most NBA fans the Memphis Grizzlies are a joke. Think about it right now and tell me one player in the Grizzlies lineup. Hmm, how about Pau Gasol, isn’t he a Grizzlie? Oh, no, that is right; he has been a Laker for a couple of years.

Well, you will get some bonus points, because they do have a Gasol, but it is younger brother Marc the non-All Star caliber player.

Allen Iverson will play next to Mike Conley in the Memphis backcourt

Still the Grizzlies may get zero respect, but their current lineup does have potential.
Try this out:
Center: Marc Gasol with Hasheem Thabeet backing him up. Not bad.
Power Forward: Zach Randolph. OK, still looking for a team that will let the Black Hole be himself.
Small Forward: Scoring machine Rudy Gay.
Shooting guard: Maybe Allen Iverson, otherwise O.J. Mayo. The old grizzled vet and the young pup.
Point guard: Mike Conley. Still waiting for him to develop.

Conley, Mayo, Thabeet, and Gay are all young and talented. Randolph and Iverson can both score. Sure, that lineup is not going to challenge for the title, but some excellent pieces are in place.
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