Chandler Parsons expressed his frustration with team executives and said he was "dying to play" after getting medically cleared to return from a knee injury.
The Grizzlies plan on keeping Parsons as a healthy inactive for the foreseeable future.
“I’m medically cleared by the people I work with every single day, that are experts at this kind of stuff, so it’s frustrating to watch a team struggle and I’m sitting there on the bench healthy, dying to play,” said Parsons.
Parsons also blamed a lack of communication with general manager Chris Wallace. He has one year remaining on a four-year max contract he signed in 2016.
“It’s just been a very unorganized schedule and still, to this day, there’s no set plan of when I’m going to return to play or anything like that. No communication. No nothing. I don’t think it’s from a basketball standpoint. It’s definitely not from a health standpoint. I’ve been cleared by the medical staff of our organization, and clearly it’s not about fitting. I already earned a starting spot out of training camp and have shown I can fit with the team. I think the confusion for me is there’s no communication about what’s going on and when I’m going to play,” added Parsons.
J.B. Bickerstaff stated he had “nothing to say" about whether Parsons would return to the floor for the Grizzlies.
