“And Alexander Temetrius wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.”

Man it’s actually crazy how quickly it all fell apart, Ja hit that crazy after the whistle dunk on Wemby January 15 2025.

He had just come back from his second missed stint due to injury (8 games and 5 games), averaging just ok stats at that stage (21.⁴⁄₄.³⁄₇.3, in 28 mins on 45/30/84 shooting, 1.5 stocks and 4 TOs) but showing up in clutch moments and winning games (Grizzlies moved to 26-15 and Spurs 19-20 after this game).

The team was rolling, we go on to win 10 of the next 11, Ja missing 4 of those games.. then immediately lose 8 of our next 11… We manage to go .500 in March before losing our only backup big, firing basically half the coaching staff, then losing one of our rookies who played into a starter role in a meaningless end of season game where he got undercut on a fast break.

We beat the Mavs to make it into the playoffs (who end up jumping to first in the lottery) and get absolutely destroyed by the thunder the first two games as we expected. Game 3 at home there is a small glimmer of hope, the team is clicking, the fast break back pass from SPJ to a trailing Ja to go up nearly 30 should have taken the roof off the place, Dort commits to the defence with no way to reach him, horrible fall, Ja goes out injured again, the rest of the team crumbles, we ship Bane in the offseason (Grizz legend) for admittedly a really solid return and probably expected a bit of a retool year like the Celtics, boy was I fucking wrong.

I now realise I wrote a fucking novel to a 17 word comment that’s probably not even coherent my b

I think you mean Kai Jones. He got the poster in wembys first summer league game.

They are making a name for themselves. I just grew up on 2000’s and 2010’s basketball so when I see a heliocentric high volume shooting guard in the west with a high difficulty shotmaking play style going up against a generational two way big with potential to be one of the greatest ever I immediately think of Kobe vs Duncan. Especially since I believe they’ll be competing against each other for titles like the Lakers and Spurs did for essentially a decade.

Who can you even compare Wemby to?