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Exum Close

The Memphis Grizzlies are set to get a big boost. Their starting point guard Dante Exum is closing in on a return. The young Aussie has had a terrible run of injuries. After suffering a heart breaking ACL injury, Dante looked to be on the road to reaching his lofty potential, with a great summer league and a strong pre season, when in the last of the pre season games he took a nasty fall and full separated his shoulder. Reports were that he was to be sidelined all year. However Dante has put his head down and worked through his rehab incredibly hard. He has kept his fitness up the whole time and now he is putting up shots and getting involved in some 4 on 4 drills.

GM Dunne was asked about Dante this morning. “we are so happy to have him back, He is the starting PG of this team and we cannot wait to have him back out there. He was set for a huge season and hopefully he can finish the second half of the season playing some good ball. We had some trade offers for him, some very decent in fact, but we knew all along we wanted to keep him and resign him at the end of the season”

With the untimely waiving by the Kings of Big Papa, The Grizz have been shuffling around their plans. The acquisition of Sam Dekker in a trade this week will offer some flexibility at the 3 and 4 spots and the imminent return of Exum will allow LeVert to show his flexibility in other positions too. No doubt it is going to be hard without Papa, but this team is up for the fight of keeping its playoff chances alive as we head into the all-star break.