Memphis Grizzlies: +8000 to win NBA Championship after firing Taylor Jenkins

Rusty Gorelick Published: Mar 28 2025 17:13

The Memphis Grizzlies fired head coach Taylor Jenkins on March 28th despite the team sitting in fifth place in the Western Conference with a 44-29 record.

The team has nine games left on its regular season schedule, but a 5-5 record in the last 10 games, capped off with a 125-104 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on March 27th, was evidently enough to force the front office's hand.

After Jenkins' firing, the Grizzlies now have the 10th-shortest odds at +8000 to win the NBA Championship.

Memphis is also +2500 to win the Western Conference, which are the seventh-shortest odds in that market.

Jenkins took over as Grizzlies coach ahead of the 2019/20 season, and he led the team to increase its win total in each of his first three seasons. The team's best season under Jenkins' watch was 2021/22, which ended with 56 regular-season wins and an appearance in the conference semifinals.

In the last 10 games, though, Memphis ranked 20th in field goal percentage (46.5 percent), 18th in three-point percentage (37.1 percent), and 13th in points per game (117.1). They went 1-3 in their last four games, losing to the Portland Trail Blazers, Los Angeles Clippers and the Thunder

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Odds displayed within this article were correct at the time of writing and are subject to change.