Things just went from bad to worse for the Grizzlies. Bryant Reeves, the $11.5 Million Man, hasn't played a single second this season. Now they're going to be without the player the Memphis Commercial-Appeal's Marlon Morgantheir calls "their workhorse, their warrior, their team leader."
Lorenzen Wright will be out for at least the next month with a crack behind his left knee. In more technical terms, a magnetic resonance imaging exam showed a non-displaced fracture of the lateral tibial plateau located just below the knee.
The Grizz are sitting at a woeful 4 wins and 14 losses. There won't be many more wins between now and when Wright returns, as they'll be forced to play with nothing better than third-string centers the next month.
In last night's 105-80 loss to Minnesota, rookies Pau Gasol and Shane Battier had exactly half the team's 42 rebounds.
Shooting guard Michael Dickerson remains injured, and cast-off Rodney Buford has been picked up and thrust into starter's minutes.
The Grizz owe Detroit their first round draft pick in June, but it's top-five protected. Pistons fans better start looking to get that extra lottery pick in 2003.