The Memphis Grizzlies' offseason playbook looks like something straight out of Monty Python. Where once the Grizzlies looked to be dead in the dangerous waters of the NBA's Western Conference, they're now getting better...and better.
Within the first 24 hours of free agency, Memphis agreed to terms with Chandler Parsons (four years, $94.8 million, per The Vertical's Adrian Wojnarowski) and Mike Conley Jr. (five years, $153 million, per ESPN's Marc Stein). Both will be max contracts, with Conley's doubling as the largest pact in NBA history to date.
Team owner Robert Pera took notice:
For Conley, the difference between what he'll earn in Memphis and what he could've taken home elsewhere might've been enough to seal the deal for the Grizzlies. According to ESPN's Tim McMahon, the most anyone else could've offered was $114 million over four years.
In Parsons' case, Memphis' hiring of David Fizdale as head coach and J.B. Bickerstaff, formerly of the Houston Rockets, as an assistant put Tennessee's team over the top.
"I really believed in Coach Fiz," Parsons told McMah ...
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