The Memphis Grizzlies (formerly the Vancouver Grizzlies) are a National Basketball Association (NBA) team based in Memphis , Tennessee . The Grizzlies' current head coach is Mike Fratello and the team is owned by Michael Heisley . Jerry West serves as the team's President of Basketball Operations.

After relocating to Memphis for the 2001-02 season, the team hired former Los Angeles Laker and Hall of Famer Jerry West as general manager in 2002, who later conventional the 2003-04 NBA decision-making of the Year Award. In the 2002 NBA Draft, the Grizzlies draft Pau Gasol as the 3rd overall pick, who won the Rookie of the Year Award and is extensively careful to be the team's best player. Throughout the 2002-03 season, Hubie Brown was hired to trainer the Grizzlies. Brown won the NBA Coach of the Year Award in the after that season when the Grizzlies made the NBA playoffs for the primary time in Memphis Grizzlies team history in the spring of 2004 as the sixth seed in the Western Conference.

Hubie Brown step down as head coach throughout the 2004-05 season. At the occasion, the Grizzlies had a losing record. West hired TNT psychoanalyst and former coach Mike Fratello to put back Brown. The Grizzlies' record improved and the Memphis Grizzlies team advanced to the postseason for the second successive season. The Grizzlies had an active 2005 offseason in which they revamp Memphis Grizzlies team and added veteran talent. While the Grizzlies lost Bonzi Wells , Jason Williams , Stromile Swift , and James Posey , they acquire Damon Stoudamire , Bobby Jackson , and Eddie Jones .

On the Memphis Grizzlies team's original franchise request to the NBA, the Memphis Grizzlies team name was listed as the Vancouver Mounties. The administration of Canada took exemption to the name, though, claiming that the name was trademarked, prompting the alter to the current name. The Grizzlies were the first NBA team to have a website, which was shaped in 1995 by Bob Kerstein , Chief Information Officer of the Grizzlies at the time. As of 2005, the Grizzlies are the merely team representing Memphis, Tennessee in the United States four major sports leagues (NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL).

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