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The CA's Ron Tillery is currently doing articles of former Grizzlies personnel on behalf of their 15 seasons of being in Memphis. He started with former coach Sidney Lowe and will go from there.



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MINNEAPOLIS — He is standing on the Target Center court working with the Minnesota Timberwolves' promising young point guard Zach LaVine before they face the Grizzlies.

"Give me 10 more minutes with him," T'Wolves assistant coach Sidney Lowe told a reporter waiting to catch up about old times in the Bluff City.

Lowe, the original Memphis Grizzlies head coach when the team arrived from Vancouver in 2001, still is in the business of helping grow NBA talent.

Lowe only wishes he had more time do so in Memphis after being charged with developing Shane Battier and Pau Gasol as rookies.

"I don't care who you are as a coach. You can be a Hall-of-Fame coach — and I'm not taking anything away from great coaches — but if you have young players you're developing, it's going to be tough," Lowe said. "That's just the way it is. I just would have liked to have had a little bit more time to see Pau and those guys grow into what they've become."

Stromile Swift

He was known for locking thumbs together and flapping his fingers as if to mimic bird wings after a high-flying dunk.

Nowadays, former Grizzlies forward Stromile Swift routinely wraps his arms around a four-year-old daughter and, occasionally, a small trucking company he founded roughly three years ago.

"My life is a lot slower," said the 36-year-old. "The main thing is trying to find different things to do to stay busy. I started a small trucking company called SS Transports. We transport salt water, landfill and woodchips, and stuff like that. It's not a day-to-day thing for me so I still have a lot of free time. I've got my little four-year-old girl here and that's kept me grounded."

Swift resides in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana, having moved back there after a short stay in Miami where the Grizzlies are set to face the Heat Sunday evening in American Airlines Arena.

Swift hasn't played basketball since 2010 when he signed with the Shandong Lions of the Chinese Basketball Association. His NBA stops included Phoenix, New Jersey, Houston, and Vancouver. Swift, of course, is also an original Memphis Grizzly after moving with the franchise from Vancouver in 2001.