MEMPHIS – The photo serves a painfully significant purpose. It’s housed deep in the gallery of JaMychal Green’s cell phone, but not stashed quite far enough to ever be forgotten. It’s one of the very few remnants that carries meaning from last season’s dreadful, injury-riddled limp into the playoffs for the Grizzlies and that merciless, first-round sweep by San Antonio. Memphis was without floor leader Mike Conley because of an Achilles injury, without franchise center Marc Gasol due to foot surgery, without midseason sparkplug Mario Chalmers and others victimized by various ailments.
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Weekend Focus: A Fighting chance
