Memphis Grizzlies 2024-25 NBA Championship Betting
What a difference a year and a player makes. With the return of Ja Morant, the Memphis Grizzlies are one of the biggest winners on the court and at the cashier’s cage in the first half of the 2024-25 NBA season. Following three consecutive playoff seasons, the Memphis Grizzlies were hopelessly out of the postseason in 2024. Morant was out for the season due to injury, the headliner of an epidemic of injuries that ruined the Grizzlies season. Despite the season from hell, the Grizzlies are now back and getting some future market feelers for the 2025 playoff campaign ahead.
2024-25 NBA Championship Betting Odds
Memphis Grizzlies NBA Betting Lines
As the All-Star break approaches, the Memphis Grizzlies are 34-16 straight up, 33-17 against the spread, and 31-17 over/under the total. Memphis is second in the Western Conference playoff standings and six games behind the Oklahoma City Thunder in the race.
Memphis has NBA metrics of 1st for scoring offense, 5th for field goal percentage, 7th for 3-point field goal percentage, 22nd for free throw percentage, and 2nd for offensive rebounding. On defense, the Grizzlies have NBA metrics of 23rd for scoring defense, 2nd for field goal percentage permitted, 6th for 3-point field goal percentage allowed, and 10th for defensive rebounding.
Key Players
PG Ja Morant was averaging 25.1 points and 5.6 rebounds per game before his injury last year. So far this season, Morant is averaging 20.5 points and 7.6 assists per game. Morant was the 2nd overall pick of the 2019 NBA Draft out of Murray State by the Grizzlies. He is a 2-time NBA All-Star.
SG Desmond Bane averaged 23.7 points and 5.5 assists per game last season in only 42 games. Thus, Memphis is without its two most productive players. This year, Bane is averaging 17.9 points per contest.
In 2023-24, PF Jaren Jackson Jr. averaged 22.5 points and 5.5 rebounds per game. The Grizzlies selected Jackson as the fourth overall pick in the 2018 NBA Draft out of Michigan State. He is a two-time NBA All-Star, including this year, and was the 2023 NBA Defensive Player of the Year.
Head Coach
Head coach Taylor Jenkins was an NBA assistant for several seasons before taking over the Grizzlies in 2019. Jenkins has a career record of 206-185 with three playoff appearances. Last year he faced the biggest challenge of his coaching career without his two top players. Memphis wisely gave him a mulligan and expected a rebound in the season ahead.
Season-by-Season Record (Last 6)
| SEASON |
GAMES |
WINS |
LOSSES |
FINISH |
PLAYOFFS |
| 2023–24 |
82 |
27 |
55 |
4th, Southwest |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2022–23 |
82 |
51 |
31 |
1st, Southwest |
Lost in First Round, 2–4 (Lakers) |
| 2021–22 |
82 |
56 |
26 |
1st, Southwest |
Lost in Conference Semifinals, 2–4 (Warriors) |
| 2020–21 |
72 |
38 |
34 |
2nd, Southwest |
Lost in First Round, 1–4 (Jazz) |
| 2019–20 |
73 |
34 |
39 |
3rd, Southwest |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2018–19 |
82 |
33 |
49 |
3rd, Southwest |
Did Not Qualify |
Memphis Grizzlies History
Few teams in the NBA are more anonymous than the Memphis Grizzlies. Memphis has never won a championship of any kind since joining the NBA as an expansion team in Vancouver, where they operated from 1995 through 2001. They were one of the worst teams of all time in their six seasons in Canada, never winning more than 23 games in a season before their move to Memphis.
Since moving to Memphis for the 2001-02 season, the Grizzlies have been more successful. They made the playoffs for the first time during the 2004-05 season, and they made the postseason for three straight seasons.
The 2010s were the most successful period for the Memphis Grizzlies. The Grit and Grind Grizzlies went to the playoffs for seven straight seasons, and they were a tough out in the playoffs with veterans like Zach Randolph and Tony Allen and young center Marc Gasol. Their most successful run came during the 2012-13 season when the Grizzlies knocked off the Los Angeles Clippers and Oklahoma City Thunder to reach the Western Conference Finals. Unfortunately, they were swept in the conference finals by the San Antonio Spurs.
Memphis is in a position to challenge for supremacy in the Western Conference once again with a new collection of young, talented players highlighted by Ja Morant. The Grizzlies went 56-26 during the 2021-22 season, and they showed that they weren’t scared of the five-time champion Golden State Warriors.
NBA Teams
Eastern Conference - Atlantic
Eastern Conference - Central
Eastern Conference - Southeast
Western Conference - Northwest
Western Conference - Pacific
Western Conference - Southwest
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