Before the NBA postponed his season because of COVID-19, the former Oregon basketball star Duck and the current Memphis Grizzlies starting guard Dillon Brooks he had a few words of choice for former Andre Iguodala’s decision to stay out of season until the Grizzlies kicked him off the team.
“I can’t wait to find a way to swap it so I can play it and really show it what Memphis is about,” Brooks told Mark Giannotto on February 3, 2020.
Iguodala was refusing to report to the Grizzlies even after being traded by the Golden State Warriors. Memphis eventually exchanged it for Miami Heat for Justice Winslow, and the NBA season was later suspended. Days before the NBA restarted, Heat and Grizzlies were playing a scrimmage and Brooks backed his month-old junk speech.
The former Oregon Duck scored 23 points in 8-on-12 shooting from the ground, added four rebounds and played 23 minutes in the team’s 128-110 scrum. For Iguodala, scrimmage had a limited impact. He finished the game with only two points in 1-of-3 pulling from the floor.
The Grizzlies will resume their 2020 season in eighth place in the Western Conference playoff race. They have been projected to finish near the bottom of the standings, but they go to the restart of the NBA with the possibility of making the playoffs.
Brooks and the Grizzlies will open the NBA reboot with a game on July 31 against 9th Portland. The game will air on NBATV.
In Brooks’ third season with the Grizzlies and in the NBA, he’s currently averaging 15.7 points per game and shooting 40.2% off the field. Brooks also averages 3.3 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game. He’s averaging 28.5 minutes per game this season. Brooks signed a three-year $ 35 million contract extension with the Grizzlies in February. Former Oregon star Duck was drafted by the Grizzlies in the second round of the 2017 NBA Draft. It was a three-year starter for the franchise.
