NBA Season Preview 2022-23: Every team’s current longest-tenured player
By Luke Anton
Memphis Grizzlies: Dillon Brooks, 5 years
The previously stated 2017-18 Atlanta Hawks won just 24 games, but the 2017-18 Memphis Grizzlies during Dillon Brooks’ rookie season outdid that number, winning only 22 games. The Grizzlies’ most-memorable moment from that season did actually involve Dillon Brooks. MarShon Brooks was involved as well.
Trevor Ariza trade fell through because Suns thought they were getting Dillon Brooks, not MarShon Brooks, per @wojespn pic.twitter.com/ZffRyzgLBe
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) December 15, 2018
Washington believes it was told Dillon Brooks in conversations with Memphis. The Grizzlies insist they told Washington it was MarShon. One rival GM texted me and said: "Maybe Washington can put Scott Brooks in if there has to be a Brooks in the deal." Welcome to NBA Trade Season.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 15, 2018
Dillon Brooks was a second-round pick in the 2017 draft, acquired by the Grizz on draft night from the Houston Rockets for a second-round pick that ended up being his previous teammate De’Anthony Melton. Brooks is entering the final year of his current contract and will likely become an unrestricted free agent next summer.