Mercurial wing Dillon Brooks, who is an impending free agent this offseason, will not return to the Grizzlies “under any circumstances” the team informed his representatives on Tuesday, according to a report from Shams Charania of The Athletic.
The decision from the Grizzlies comes after Brooks’s shot at LeBron James early in the team’s first round series against the Lakers, in which Brooks called James “old” and said that he wouldn’t respect James unless he scored 40 points on him.
The Lakers went on to win three of the next four games after that comment by Brooks, who played poorly and then refused to honor his media obligations after each of the remaining games in the series, leading to a fine from the NBA.
