Still, Jokić dragged that team to 50 wins. Jamal Murray had a down year. Aaron Gordon missed 31 games. The front office was imploding. It could’ve gone off the rails. But Jokić stabilized everything.

And he was one of the NBA’s most disruptive players on-ball ... He’d check guards like Ja Morant, Donovan Mitchell and even Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. And bigger wings like Anthony Edwards ...

Ja Morant's Memphis ... two All-Star teams and one All-NBA team. The Murray State product also won the 2020 Rookie of the Year award and the 2022 Most Improved Player of the Year award.

He, as a NBA Most Valuable Player in 2018, is a true inspiration ... and Draymond Green will play against the controversial Ja Morant and the Grizzlies to seal their spot in the first eight ...

Nikola Jokic might lose out to Shai Gilgeous-Alexander for this season's Most Valuable Player award, but he's nearly ... Celtics and Houston Rockets. With Ja Morant, Desmond Bane and Jaren Jackson ...

Star Ja Morant promised a sprained right ankle wouldn’t keep him out of Memphis’ play-in game against Dallas with the Western ...

Memphis deserves credit for digging itself out, but OKC is the prize it gets for falling into this hole in the first place.