Franchise Snapshot: Vancouver Grizzlies - players, coach, statistics - Brief Article

Basketball Digest, Summer, 2001

* Assistant coach Michael Adams once scored 54 points in a game.

* Shareef Abdur-Rahim is the franchise leader in points, rebounds, minutes, steals, and blocks.

* In the Grizzlies' short history, some quality players have passed through Vancouver, including Greg Anthony, Antonio Daniels, Othella Harrington, Felipe Lopez, George Lynch, Moochie Norris, Anthony Peeler, Byron Scott, and Otis Thorpe.

* Four nondescript players have worn No. 40 for the Grizz: Antonio Harvey, Cuonzo Martin, Ivano Newbill, and Makhtar Ndiaye.

* The Ides of March blow ill for Vancouver; the club is an astoundingly bad 9-84 all-time in the month. That record includes a franchise-worst 0-17 month in March 1996.

* The Grizzlies' best coach? Lionel Hollins (18-42, .300) owned a winning percentage nearly 100 points better than Vancouver's next-best coach. Naturally, the Grizzlies fired Hollins at the end of the 1999-2000 season.

* In perhaps a foreshadowing of things to come, Vancouver's first player, Kevin Pritchard, was also the first Grizzly traded--five months after joining the team.

* The best team ranking among all statistics recorded in Vancouver's first five seasons came in 1999-2000, when the team finished third in the NBA in rebounds per game.

* Who do the Grizzlies least like to play? Well, the list runs long, but Vancouver has never beaten the Indiana Pacers (0-9).

* A 2000-01 season sweep of Boston gives the Grizzlies a 6-5 record vs. the Celtics, the only team Vancouver has a winning record against.