Honestly, I don't expect Morant's return to impact the Grizzlies' performance and significantly improve their spot in the standings.
I'm wondering what the attitude of the Grizzlies management towards Morant is now after everything that happened. Do they still see him as the team leader, or would they prefer to get rid of him as soon as the opportunity arises?
Not in the first games, but I expect the Grizzlies to play way better when he's back than how they're playing right now.
His presence will boost the morale of the team, and they also got D. Rose who will mentor him along the way.
I just hope that this 25-game suspension of him will be the last suspension that he will face on his whole NBA career because it affected him, and his team by a lot. As for the team getting rid of him, I don't think that it will happen. How can you get rid of a very talented young player? They might do it though if he will do it again, or worse the whole NBA might ban him already after that. Do I still see him as a leader? Yes even though he went through that drama, I still see him as a good leader, but not as good as others out there.
Just don't expect too much on his comeback because like what other NBA players are, they will find their groove at the first games then from there, they will build their momentum that will help their team get some wins.
I do agree that he will be having just a little bit of adjustment period on first few games, this doesn't mean he won't be awesome at his very first game, he could come in and play with his heart out and score a lot and be awesome but then he will realize that there is a long season to be played and he can't be tired after just one game and he may end up being a little bit different, we may see him calm down a bit.
I think it is going to help them and benefit them a lot, the yare already a decent team and I think he will be fine. I do agree that this suspension must be something that will benefit him, or hopefully it should, he is not some kid from the ghetto that grew up like this, so why he acting like he is a big street cred kid is beyond me, but he should learn from his mistakes, get rid of friends that influence him badly, and get help, he needs to do better than this.