{"id":242513,"date":"2025-10-27T02:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T02:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242513\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T02:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T02:03:07","slug":"memphis-grizzlies-adding-charles-bassey-via-hardship-exception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242513\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis Grizzlies adding Charles Bassey via hardship exception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/memphis-grizzlies\/29\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/memphis-grizzlies\/29\" target=\"_blank\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> are planning to sign center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/charles-bassey\/1138669\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/charles-bassey\/1138669\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Bassey<\/a> via the hardship exception, sources told ESPN on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Grizzlies have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/ty-jerome\/942866\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/ty-jerome\/942866\" target=\"_blank\">Ty Jerome<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/scotty-pippen-jr\/1176798\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/scotty-pippen-jr\/1176798\" target=\"_blank\">Scotty Pippen Jr.<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/brandon-clarke-358197\/892914\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/brandon-clarke-358197\/892914\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Clarke<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/zach-edey-1017145\/1231414\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/zach-edey-1017145\/1231414\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Edey<\/a> sidelined for extended periods, clearing the way for a 10-day hardship signing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bassey has played four NBA seasons with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/san-antonio-spurs\/24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/san-antonio-spurs\/24\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> and spent the past three years with the Spurs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bassey, who will turn 25 on Tuesday, averaged 4.5 points, 9.0 rebounds and 2.5 blocks in a strong preseason performance with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/atlanta-hawks\/1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/atlanta-hawks\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Hawks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Memphis Grizzlies are planning to sign center Charles Bassey via the hardship exception, sources told ESPN on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,114045,96368,459,82],"class_list":["post-242513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-charles-bassey-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-1138669","tag-memphis-grizzlies-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-29","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}