Their fearlessness and relentlessness returned. Maybe it was never truly gone. Undoubtedly, on this night, Grit and Grind was more than a played out catch phrase when the Grizzlies got back in the mud to beat the Denver Nuggets 91-84.
In Friday night’s game, the legends of Grizzlies’ yore resurfaced, and when they showed up, they showed out before a raucous crowd at the Grindhouse.
A few waves of nostalgia monsooned into the familiar rush of impending violence, the absolute certainty that a Memphis Grizzly won’t be the first man to back down, the roar of a frenzied crowd ready to blast “Whoop that trick” at an opponent who clearly wants none of it.