Dave Feschuk: Dillon Brooks, the NBA’s most hated man, lives on the edge — just the way the Grizzlies like it
Brooks is one of its last agitators. There are simply very few NBAers who still play on the ragged edge on which Brooks resides, and even fewer as prone to barrelling over it.On Friday,for one game without pay for his part in a Thursday night melee with Cleveland Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell. The league cited him for starting the altercation by “striking Mitchell in the groin in an unsportsmanlike manner.” As if there’s another manner in which he ought to have done it.
It’s the second time in a couple of weeks that some form of extracurricular activity has thrust Brooks into a media firestorm. Last month in L.A., Brooks found himself trading expletives with a fan — in this case, a fan who happened to be Pro Football Hall of Famer turned Fox Sports pundit Shannon Sharpe. And if Sharpe was the one who ended up apologizing in that case, this is the second time in about nine months that Brooks has been suspended.
Memphis coach Taylor Jenkins said Saturday that as much as he and Brooks have partaken in “private” conversations about Brooks’s edginess, the Grizzlies, led by recently anointed Western all-stars Ja Morant and Jaren Jackson Jr., are the best defensive team in the West for a reason. And Brooks is a big part of it.
There’s tension in Memphis beyond Brooks’s recent business with the league office. The Grizzlies, second in the West, have lost seven of their most recent eight games. There’s an easy reason: Big man Steven Adams has been out for six of those games. But it’s also been pointed out that Brooks is shooting a career-low 40 per cent from the field while averaging 15.2 points a game, his lowest scoring number since his second year.
On Saturday, Green pointed out that Brooks, who ranks second in technical fouls to Golden State’s Draymond Green, has lately toned down the referee-directed rhetoric.
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