Feb 28, 2002 12:16 PM EST
By DWAIN PRICE
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
DALLAS - Count Memphis Grizzlies owner Michael Heisley among those who believe Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is a smart businessman.
"If he's not the best owner, he's one of the best in the league," Heisley said. "He's a fan-oriented owner, which the NBA needs more of.
"I'm not in awe of Mark Cuban. I just respect people that get the job done."
Nearly two years ago, Heisley and Cuban received their NBA ownership papers from commissioner David Stern on the same day. But while the Grizzlies own the second-worst record in the NBA, the Mavericks are thriving to the point where many believe they have a legitimate shot at unseating the Los Angeles Lakers as this year's NBA champions.
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Feb 28, 2002 10:01 AM EST
The Jazz aren"t the only ones playing a homecoming game tonight.
Eddie Gill, who starred for two seasons at Weber State, also returns to Utah -- as a Jazz opponent.
Gill spent most of this season playing for the Kansas City Knights of the American Basketball Association before signing a 10-day contract with the Memphis Grizzlies this week, and now he finds himself in the starting lineup.
In his debut with the Grizzlies on Monday against the Los Angeles Clippers, Gill played all 48 minutes and had 20 points and seven assists.
""I didn"t anticipate playing the whole game, but I felt comfortable," Gill told the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
With starter Jason Williams and backup Brevin Knight in street clothes nursing injuries, Gill got a crash course in the Grizzlies" offense, learning 15 plays.
""I was pleased with what I did for the first game," Gill said. ""Nervousness was not a factor."
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DALLAS - This is how far the Mavericks have come over the past two years.
About the only complaint the players had after Tuesday's relatively easy 104-91 triumph over the Memphis Grizzlies was that they have a practice scheduled for today on what normally would be an off day.
But that's the price the Mavericks have to pay to acclimate the four players acquired from the Denver Nuggets in Thursday's blockbuster trade.
One of those players, Raef LaFrentz, scored 11 of his 17 points in the first quarter as the Mavericks rolled to a 34-21 lead and hardly broke a sweat.
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Grizzlies Feb 2002 Archive
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| Feb 27, 2002
Most players on a 10-day contract hope to get a few minutes of playing time during their stay in the big-time.
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| Feb 26, 2002
Antonio McDyess is ready to play basketball again.
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| Feb 24, 2002
The Memphis Grizzlies released veteran guard Elliot Perry after a 10-day stay.
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| Feb 20, 2002
The story has it, one of the reasons the Vancouver Grizzlies struggled in British Columbia, especially later on, was the inability of point guard Mike Bibby and small forward Shareef Abdur-Rahim to get along.
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| Feb 20, 2002
Duncan continued his magical overhaul at the line Tuesday, making his final 11 free throws of the game — including four in overtime — as the Spurs held off Memphis 99-93 Tuesday in front of 16,229 at the Alamodome.
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| Feb 20, 2002
The Grizzlies still have not settled into Memphis.
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| Feb 18, 2002
This is why the Hornets need Jamal Mashburn back:
Sunday should have been a gimme: At home against one of the worst teams in the NBA.
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| Feb 16, 2002
Teams and players aren't allowed to say much about drug-related suspensions, so what Ron Tillerey says in the Memphis Commercial-Appeal is about as much as we're likely to get.
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| Feb 15, 2002
victories and smiles.
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| Feb 15, 2002
Nuggets win in Memphis.
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| Feb 15, 2002
Friday, February 15, 2002 - MEMPHIS, Tenn.
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| Feb 15, 2002
With point guards Jason Williams and Brevin Knight out with injuries, the Grizzlies picked up local player Elliot Perry to fill in.
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| Feb 14, 2002
Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald reports: With a week before the Feb.
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| Feb 14, 2002
Preview of tonights game at Memphis.
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| Feb 14, 2002
Memphis back-up point guard Brevin Knight went down in the third quarter with an ankle injury.
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| Feb 13, 2002
Just when I thought "The Wheel" was the ugliest product the NBA could turn out.
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| Feb 13, 2002
Ron Tillery of the Memphis Commercial-Appeal reports that center Ike Austin is in his last days with the Grizzlies.
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| Feb 10, 2002
More fun, less sweat.
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| Feb 10, 2002
Geoff Calkins of the Memphis Commercial-Appeal says the Grizzlies' Pau Gasol is a genuine phenomenon.
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| Feb 9, 2002
Neither Dick Versace, president of the Memphis Grizzlies, nor John Calipari, coach at the University of Memphis, have lived in this city long enough to know it.
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| Feb 8, 2002
WASHINGTON -- Kings point guard Mike Bibby has an unabashed fan in Washington Wizards star guard Michael Jordan.
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| Feb 8, 2002
There were more than a few eyebrows raised during last June's NBA draft when the Memphis Grizzlies traded Shareef Abdur-Rahim to the Atlanta Hawks for Pau Gasol as part of a blockbuster trade.
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| Feb 6, 2002
Long one of the rock-solid franchises in professional sports, the Jazz suddenly have taken on a look that would be laughable if it was not so shocking.
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| Feb 6, 2002
It was just the second quarter when Griz veteran Tony Massenburg grew tired of fending off Karl Malone's elbows.
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| Feb 6, 2002
When one shorthanded bad team beats you, it's easy to chalk it up to poor officiating or bad luck or just an off-night.
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| Feb 4, 2002
George Lynch has come out talking.
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| Feb 3, 2002
MEMPHIS
There were skeptics.
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| Feb 3, 2002
The Hornets have been to this point 12 times, within one 48-minute game of .
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| Feb 1, 2002
Bryant Reeves says, "I'll always be the original Grizzly," and he'll watch as many Grizzlies games as he can.
