The Memphis Grizzlies started the season as a shot, remembering that hard and sticky team that reached the Western Conference Finals in 2013, but since last December 9 they started a freefall that has made them win just four of their last 19 matches, ranking as the penultimate ranked West.
After the bad season they played last year, it seemed that the Grizzlies had been reborn with the recovery of Mike Conley and the incorporation of new pieces, but this last spiral of defeats has taken them from some posts of 'playoffs' to those who have very difficult to return and more with the demanding schedule that awaits them: Milwaukee Bucks, Boston Celtics and Toronto Raptors. Therefore, according to information handled by Marc Stein, a New York Times journalist, as the Tennessee franchise accumulates losses, grow the options of negotiating a transfer with Marc Gasol as the protagonist. The 32-year-old Spaniard ends contract at the end of the season and although he has a player option for 2019-20 of 25.6 million dollars, the Grizzlies would risk losing an asset like him in exchange for nothing.
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In case of finally deciding on the departure of Gasol, the Grizzlies would expect to receive in exchange some young assets or a handful of rounds of the Draft with which to make a reconstruction around Jaren Jackson Jr, whom precisely Marc named as his successor this same season.