Utah Jazz vs. Memphis Grizzlies<\/p>\n
Memphis, Tennessee; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
LINE: Grizzlies -1.5; over\/under is 242.5<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Memphis Grizzlies host the Utah Jazz for the season opener.<\/p>\n
Memphis finished 25-57 overall and 19-33 in Western Conference action last season. The Grizzlies averaged 8.8 steals, 4.8 blocks and 14.6 turnovers per game last season.<\/p>\n
Utah went 22-60 overall and 12-40 in Western Conference action during the 2025-26 season. The Jazz averaged 117.6 points per game while shooting 46.7% from the field and 34.5% from 3-point distance last season.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Grizzlies: Isaiah Stewart: out (ankle).<\/p>\n
Jazz: Jusuf Nurkic: out (foot).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Utah Jazz vs. Memphis Grizzlies Memphis, Tennessee; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EDT LINE: Grizzlies -1.5; over\/under is 242.5 BOTTOM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,1063,99],"class_list":["post-888690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}