Lionel Hollins

The Sports Xchange By Jeff Reynolds, The Sports Xchange Conley, Parker critical to hopefuls' Finals fate Mike Conley might be a Johnny Come Lately figure to casual NBA fans who paid little mind to the Memphis Grizzlies before their ouster of the...

Grizzlies hold off Thunder to seal series OKLAHOMA CITY -- Memphis has never been about the flash. It has always been about the grind and work of the game. So when the Grizzlies found themselves leading by only two points in the fourth quarter against...

Memphis' Hollins Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times George Karl was a good choice, the veteran Nuggets coach guiding a young team with emerging talent to the best homecourt record in the NBA. But the better choice would have been the Grizzlies' Lionel...

The Memphis Grizzlies have never been to the Western Conference finals. Memphis can get there for the first time if it can defeat the host Oklahoma City Thunder in Wednesday’s Game 5 of their conference semifinal series. The Grizzlies have won three...

The Sports Xchange By Ron Higgins, The Sports Xchange Grizzlies 103, Thunder 97 (OT) MEMPHIS -- Oklahoma City Thunder coach Scott Brooks said before Monday night's Western Conference semifinal Game 4 against the Memphis Grizzlies that the contest would...

Here’s the message from the best sign I’ve seen in a while today: “There’s no stop, drop and roll in hell”. Origins--- They may be in Oklahoma City and Memphis now, but time was that the Thunder was in Seattle and the...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The Memphis Grizzlies kept home-court advantage on Saturday that it stole from Oklahoma City, but it wasn't easy. Memphis had to close the game with six consecutive points, all on free throws, to take an 87-81 victory in Game 3 at...

     Yes, it is time for the yearly one-word rant now that the NBA has bestowed all of its annual individual awards: Why?     Actually, more to the point, the issue should be: When?     As much as anything, it is the Coach of the Year balloting, or,...

The Sports Xchange NBA playoffs: Game 3 a jumpball for momentum Miami regained control of its Eastern Conference semifinals series on Wednesday, tying things up with the Chicago Bulls as the proceedings shift to Chicago. Thursday was largely a travel...

There has to be more to the story of the suspension of Heights Senior Class President Wesley Teague than just the tweet he sent out last week saying: “Heights U is the equivalent to the WSU football team”. Was that one tweet really so...

Lakers Coach Mike D'Antoni did not receive any votes for the "2013-13 NBA Coach of the Year." George Karl, of the Denver Nuggets, was awarded the Red Auerbach Trophy for leading the Denver Nuggets to a 57-25 record.  The Nuggets were recently eliminated...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — It was a rough day for Clippers starting guard Chauncey Billups. Billups missed all six of his shots from the field against the Memphis Grizzlies in Game 4 of the Western Conference first-round playoff series, and he didn't score....