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The Vancouver Grizzlies were a Canadian professional basketball team based in Vancouver. The Grizzlies competed in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Midwest Division of the Western Conference. The team was established in 1995, along with the Toronto Raptors, as part of the NBA's expansion into Canada.
After starting the season 2–0, Vancouver would lose their next 19 games to quickly fall into last place in the Midwest Division. Vancouver was held to a season low 62 points in a 111–62 loss to the San Antonio Spurs on November 8, 1995. On December 10, 1995, the Grizzlies play the Toronto Raptors for the first time. The first NBA regular ...
The 1996–97 NBA season was the Grizzlies' second season in the National Basketball Association. [1] Coming off of an NBA worst record of 15–67 in their first season, the Grizzlies had the third overall pick in the 1996 NBA draft, and selected Shareef Abdur-Rahim from the University of California.
The Grizzlies got off to their best start in team history, as thirteen games into the season, the team had a 6–7 record. On October 31, 1997, Violet Palmer made history in Vancouver when she officiated the NBA season opener between the Vancouver Grizzlies and the Dallas Mavericks, in British Columbia, Canada. The team would then fall into a ...
Bryant Reeves (born June 8, 1973) is an American former professional basketball player. Reeves spent his entire career with the National Basketball Association's Vancouver Grizzlies, playing with the team from 1995 until 2001.
General Motors Place, now Rogers Arena, was the Vancouver Grizzlies' home arena. The Vancouver Grizzlies relocation to Memphis was a successful effort by the ownership group of the Vancouver Grizzlies to move the team from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to Memphis, Tennessee, United States.
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The 1998–99 NBA season was the Grizzlies' fourth season in the National Basketball Association. [1] On March 23, 1998, the owners of all 29 NBA teams voted 27–2 to reopen the league's collective bargaining agreement, seeking changes to the league's salary cap system, and a ceiling on individual player salaries.