The Houston win helped some, but will the pollsters continue to like the Grizzlies if they win.  By the way, who has the Grizzlies ranked the highest and how high?

Check the Power Rankings for this week.

Grizzlies.com:  When the Memphis Grizzlies said that they were going to provide fans with the opportunity to bid on one-of-a-kind team memorabilia as part of their Online Auction Series, they weren’t kidding. On the auction block starting December 11 at 9 a.m. is the game worn jersey that Darko Milicic ripped in last night’s 109-97 win over the Houston Rockets. 

Via ESPN.com:

The Washington Wizards, Memphis Grizzlies and New Orleans Hornets have agreed to a three-team trade that will bring two new guards to the Gilbert Arenas-less Wizards, according to NBA front-office sources.

The Wizards will receive New Orleans' Mike James and Memphis' Javaris Crittenton in the exchange, with the Hornets acquiring Washington's Antonio Daniels and the Grizzlies coming away with a future first-round pick.

Ron Tillery has his stat of the day. It's usually trivial and sounds like he pulled it off the ESPN weird facts page but sometimes it is interesting. I assume that Ron actually has some idea about what he is reading. I mean he is claiming to find these stats himself. It seemed logical to imagine he wasn't just reading something on paper but actually understood what was going on behind the words. The man is a journalist after all and he works with words for a living (unlike certain old and fat bloggers who actually have a real job).

Apparently I was wrong.

I've been tracking Hamed Haddai's stats in the D-League play. Click here to go to his DLeague stat page.

Click on the read more to see a chart of his stats in 5 games.

He's not getting a lot of minutes nor shooting a lot, but rebounding for the limited minutes is good.

Chris Vernon is reporting on the radio and Ron Tillery has a blog up stating that Javaris Crittenton  is close to being traded to the Washington Wizards for the conditional first round pick that the Grizzlies gave up in acquiring Juan Carlos Navarro last year.

Yeah...I can totally see Darko watching WWF and WCW as a kid.  Drink your milk, say your prayers and take your vitamins....Brutha!!!

Hat tip:  Grizzed by Vanjulio

I have a feeling the Griz would gladly take this up and down play over the mostly down play that plagued the team for much of November.  After losing 7 straight and 11 of 12, the Griz have reeled off an impressive win against the Clips, followed by a complete coma-inducing performance in a loss to the Hornets, and now followed that with a solid game against the Rockets to earn their first division win of the season. Up-down-up.

Rudy surprisingly didn't start the game, as the CA reports that he was late to a shoot around.  It hardly bothered him.  He played a solid game and scored 20 points in 24 minutes.  Iavaroni, who was given a 1-to-1 odds of being fired soon by ESPN, stuck with a modified version of his new starting lineup, with Lowry and Darko starting.  They were joined by Ross, Mayo and Gasol.  The lineup was a good choice, as the Griz started the game as strong and team oriented as any game this season, ending the 1st quarter surprsingly whipping the Rockers 32 to 19 (to be fair, the Rockets were without two-thirds of their oft-injuried Big 3 in McGrady and Artest).