Three Hundred and Twenty-Four: The War About the Beard

On April 17, 2012, 11 days had passed since the Grizzlies defeated the Clippers head-on.

During this period, the battle in the regular season was still fierce. The records of the two Los Angeles teams are still almost the same, and in the East, the heat and the Bulls' battle for the first place in the East is still continuing.

The Grizzlies continued to move forward firmly all the way. So far, the Grizzlies have achieved a record of 44 wins and 16 losses. The records of the Lakers and Clippers are 37 wins and 23 losses and 38 wins and 22 losses respectively.

In other words, as long as the Grizzlies can win the game on April 17, even if the Grizzlies lose all the subsequent games, they can still maintain the third place in the Western Conference.

So for the Grizzlies players, this game is the key to their relief. If you win, you can paddle with peace of mind in the last six games and prepare for the playoffs.

If they don't win, the Grizzlies will have to continue to worry about the playoffs.

Today, the Grizzlies' opponents are not too strong. Since the Portland Trail Blazers lost Roy and Oden, they have been a bit sluggish.

Finally, Aldridge finally grew into a real leader, but suffered injuries this season. Therefore, the Blazers' record this season is not ideal. So far, they are 9 games behind the eighth Jazz in the West, and have lost the possibility of advancing to the playoffs.

So today, Memphis fans are cheering. This game will definitely be won without any accidents, and after this game is over, it means that the Grizzlies will end the season with the highest ranking in team history!

But at this time in the Grizzlies locker room, the Grizzlies players are not most concerned about the highest ranking in team history, nor their opponent Portland Trail Blazers.

At this moment, what they care most about is their beards!

"Don't tell me, it's finally time for me to shave my beard, but I'm a bit reluctant." Little Gasol looked at himself in the mirror, as if he was quite proud.

His long hair and beard almost covered his entire face. Except for the eyes and nose area, the whole head is full of hair!

"Come on Mark, you now look like you have traveled from medieval Spain." Link smiled, and the image of Gasol should not be too sloppy.

"Where do you think you are going? I don't know, I must think you are about to retire." Gasol looked at Link and couldn't help laughing.

Link's hair doesn't grow fast, but he hasn't shaved his beard for several months, and he still has a beard all over his chin. Rachel sent text messages more than once to complain about Link's current image, "You look almost the same age as Tim Duncan."

It has to be said that Link is really not suitable for growing a beard. After the beard grows, the appearance is not high, but the age looks much taller. Big beards and beards are really more suitable for European and American faces.

Just as Link and Gasol were complaining to each other, the big black bear Randolph also walked into the locker room.

"Uh... What are you looking at, did you see me on the first day!?" Seeing that Link and Gasol were staring at him, Randolph waved his hands pretending to be angry.

Randolph originally had a round face, but after he grew a big beard, he looked like a strong man punching black fists.

Beauty is definitely not beauty, and Randolph, who was already full of flesh, became a bit more vicious after growing a beard.

Since Randolph grew a beard, people rarely use the nickname Z-Bo to refer to him. Hubie Brown called Randolph the most this season by the name "Big Bad Zach".

It's not just the three of them, looking around the entire Grizzlies locker room, it's full of rough guys with beards, and the entire locker room is full of male hormones......

After so long, I finally made it to today. If the Grizzlies win today's game, then they have fulfilled their bet with themselves and can happily shave their beards.

This game has nothing to do with honor, or even rank.

The Grizzlies will fight for their beards.

Looking at the group of teasers in the locker room who laughed at each other,

Hollins felt a little unbelievable.

If people from other teams knew that this "villain" team in Memphis was so naive in the locker room, they would definitely be surprised.

Half an hour later, the Grizzlies players warmed up collectively. The fans were as enthusiastic as ever, while Robert Pera and "Penny" Hardaway were covering their foreheads sitting in the stands.

The Grizzlies come out... they all look like bums. It's as if the Grizzlies owe them a lot of wages, no wonder some people on the Internet ridicule the Grizzlies should be called the Memphis Tramps.

The negotiations between Robert Pera and the current Grizzlies owner Michael Heisley have basically reached an agreement, and the league has basically agreed to the team's change of hands. Now, just after all the processes and procedures are in place, the team will change hands during the offseason.

In other words, Robert Pera is already the owner of the Grizzlies, and the relationship between him and the Grizzlies is only a step of "certification".

As the new owner of the Grizzlies, Pera is now naturally and very concerned about the situation of the Grizzlies. Therefore, he appeared more and more frequently in the FedEx Arena.

"How? After a month of observation, have you seen the potential of the Grizzlies?" Before the game, Pera chatted with his partner Hardaway.

"What plan do you have for the Grizzlies this summer?" Hardaway didn't answer, but he admitted the magic of the Grizzlies.

"The plan is still being prepared, but I think the Grizzlies' style is too conservative now."

"What's the meaning?"

"Don't worry about it, let's talk about it in the summer. The game is about to start. This is a historic day for the Grizzlies, Anferney. I bet that the Grizzlies can beat the Blazers by more than 10 points." Robert Pera said meaningfully Smiling, it seems that he can't wait to start his own basketball game.

The game started quickly, and the Trail Blazers were really desperate in the absence of French forwards Batum and Aldridge.

What's more, the Grizzlies' morale was high today, and they didn't stop playing because of their weak opponents. The Grizzlies players have been waiting for this day for a long time, and they can't calm down.

So after halftime, the Blazers trailed the Grizzlies by 9 points. If it weren't for Wesley Matthews, another undrafted pick who earned more than the No. 1 pick, he made 3 of 3 three-pointers in the first half, and the Blazers would have fallen behind by double digits.

Good things are never too late. After five minutes in the second half, the point difference has become 13 points. Randolph was very excited in the second half. It is estimated that he no longer wanted to be ridiculed by his teammates and fans because of his big beard, so he caught J.J. Hickson and beat him up.

Tony Allen was also very active today, frequently receiving passes from Link and Conley to score. Facing the penalty area guarded by his former teammate Thabeet, Tony Allen wanted whatever he wanted. Thabeet is really too slow, and there is basically no assistance in defense. As long as Gasol pulls Thabeet out of the penalty area, he will never be able to drive back.

In the end, the Grizzlies defeated the Blazers with a devastating offensive and won their 45th victory of the season at home. At that moment, countless ribbons floated down from the FedEx Arena.

The third place in the West, this is the highest ranking the Grizzlies have won since the establishment of the team!

"For the people of Memphis, today is the most memorable day! After defeating the Trail Blazers, the Grizzlies are locked in the third place in the Western Conference! This is the first time since the Grizzlies entered the NBA in the 1995-1996 season. Enter the top three in the division! This is the first time in the 17 years of their team history that they have won home court advantage in the playoffs!"

The moment the game ended, Hubie Brown swung his fist vigorously. In the past two years, the Grizzlies have made great progress. Last year, they made it to the Western Conference Finals for the first time. This year, it has the best record in team history.

As a veteran coach of the Grizzlies, Old Brown is also very pleased to see the team become what it is today.

All Memphis people are cheering for their team, and the Grizzlies have made Memphis from an obscure town to a spotlight.

The Grizzlies players were even more ecstatic. They hugged each other and shouted frantically.

But when the reporters approached, they were dumbfounded. What the Grizzlies players shouted was very different from what they imagined.

The guys were actually yelling, "Finally we can shave our beards, we can finally shave our beards!"

In this moment of making team history, they are thinking about shaving their beards!

Well... Memphis' team is really different.

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