MAY 6: Adams will be available for Game 3, per Cole (Twittter link). Memphis isn’t sure if he’ll start or come off the bench, but he has made enough progress to play.
MAY 5: Grizzlies center Steven Adams has cleared the NBA’s health and safety protocols and practiced with the team on Thursday, writes Damichael Cole of The Memphis Commercial Appeal.
Adams has missed the team’s last three playoff games after entering the protocols last week. After leading the league in offensive and total rebounds, the Grizzlies have been outdueled in both of those categories in the first two games of their second-round matchup with the Warriors.
Adams’ possible return for Saturday’s Game 3 would provide a major boost, as he led the NBA in offensive rebounds and offensive rebounding percentage this season and was the team’s top rebounder overall.
“We’ll get him another intense vitamin tomorrow, put him through practice, see where he’s at, and then we’ll kind of make a decision from there,” head coach Taylor Jenkins said.
In 76 regular season games in 2021/22, Adams averaged 6.9 points, 10.0 rebounds (4.6 offensive) and 3.4 assists in 26.3 minutes per contest. The rebounds and assists were both career highs.
Due to a poor matchup with Karl-Anthony Towns, Adams dropped out of the rotation during the opening playoff round. After playing 24 minutes in Game 1, Adams logged fewer than seven minutes of action for the rest of the series prior to entering the COVID-19 protocols.
Hope he wears a cup around Draymond. They have a history in the playoffs….
“intense vitamin”
wtf?
Grizzlies play better without him
What??? Maybe better without him vs truly special centers like KAT, Joker, & Embiid. But Adams just played in the majority of their games this season and MEM had the #2 overall record and tied their team record for most Ws. He isn’t great at keeping up with those great centers because they do EVERYTHING. Put him in there against basically all the others he is just fine.
Personally I wish they wouldn’t have done the trade this past offseason that involved Adams, JVal, and others. That’s mainly because I like JVal, but Adams has had a good impact on MEM.
Hopefully the extra stuff will stay with the bigs in the paint now, and not involve guards & forwards tackling each other.
Hopefully 6’10” and 265 pounds of solid muscle with a take no bull attitude helps curb any thoughts of retaliation from both sides and this series gets played cleaner from here on out.
Probably … who wants a label for being reckless/dirty. Brooks is now entrenched in the same sentence with Beverly, Smart, CP3, etc. fair or not.
Right there along with Draymond Green and the Morris twins as well.
I’m Groot. Can see him whispering those words pre tip-off.