{"id":691239,"date":"2026-04-01T04:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/691239\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T04:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:57:17","slug":"grizzlies-sign-22-year-old-guard-from-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/691239\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies sign 22-year-old guard from France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/memphis-grizzlies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> will fall short of the postseason this year, as they\u2019re currently 11 games behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> for the final Play-In spot with only eight games remaining.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the Grizzlies&#8217; 2025-26 season coming to an end, the franchise elected to sign a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/grizzlies\/news\/grizzlies-sign-adama-bal-to-10-day-contract\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">22-year-old guard from France<\/a> who didn\u2019t appear in an NBA game before joining Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Memphis Grizzlies today announced the team signed forward Adama Bal (uh-DAHM-uh Ball) to a 10-day contract,\u2019 the Grizzlies announced Saturday. \u201cPer team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBal has appeared in 29 games during the 2025-26 NBA G League Tip-Off Tournament and regular season and has averaged 7.4 points, 1.8 rebounds, and 1.0 assists in 18.4 minutes for the Westchester <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/new-york-knicks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Knicks<\/a> in his first NBA season after going unselected in the 2025 NBA Draft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After ending his collegiate career with Santa Clara in 2025, Bal went undrafted but quickly signed with SIG Strasbourg (LNB Pro A) to begin his professional career.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bal never competed with the French club, though, prompting him to sign with the Westchester Knicks (New York\u2019s G League affiliate).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old has already appeared in two games with the Grizzlies since joining the franchise over the weekend, averaging 6.0 points, 2.5 rebounds, and 2.5 assists per game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s reasonable to assume that Bal\u2019s main goal is to end his first NBA season on a positive note.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/news\/warriors-predicted-pair-stephen-curry-179-million-ex-nuggets-star-forward-summer-trade\/0bf3a9e48d7b3b96d57d1335\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Warriors predicted to cut ties with Kristaps Porzingis in favor of $179 million ex-Nuggets star<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Memphis Grizzlies will fall short of the postseason this year, as they\u2019re currently 11 games behind the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,294,293,177,4070,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-691239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-grizzlies","10":"tag-memphis","11":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","12":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116327680894991311","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}