Over the last few years, the Memphis Grizzlies front office has done a lot to help the team rebuild after a few years spent struggling in the years following a very successful playoff streak.
The moves made have lead to a successful rebuild, and the Grizzlies saw themselves in the eighth seed of the Western Conference and well into the playoff picture before the season hiatus.
However, as we know, history has a tendency of repeating itself, and the Memphis rebuild bares similarities to one team’s attempted rebuild back in the mid-90’s: the Dallas Mavericks.
Modern NBA fans might not be aware of this, but for a brief time in the 90’s the Dallas Mavericks had a core of three young players in Jim Jackson, Jamal Mashburn, and Jason Kidd; the trio was soon dubbed “Triple J Ranch”, and the rebuild process with that team strikes a lot of the same chords that the current Memphis rebuild does.