The Grizzlies have told Dillon Brooks, who is set to become an unrestricted free agent this offseason, that he will not return to Memphis “under any circumstances,” The Athletic’s Shams Charania reports. According to Charania, both sides agreed at the exit interviews that it is best for both to move on.
Brooks has spent his entire career in Memphis, joining the Grizzlies as a second-round pick out of Oregon in 2017. He quickly established himself on the team, playing in 82 games as a rookie and averaging at least 14 points per game in each of the last four seasons.
However, Brooks’s propensity to trash talk seemed to do him in as he consistently went after the Lakers before the two sides met in the first round. He famously said about guarding LeBron James “I don’t care, he’s old,” and then, when asked about potentially angering James, added “I poke bears.”
