Ty Jerome didn’t ease back into basketball action in his regular-season debut. The Memphis Grizzlies guard, sidelined by a high-grade right calf strain since October, had the ball in his hands on an isolation against Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert at the center of the 3-point line. The shot clock was winding down; Jerome slithered past Gobert, got to the basket and finished a crafty layup for the first points of the game. He followed that by scoring on the next Grizzlies possession, then reality set in. He passed the ball over to...
