FOX Sports Southeast to Televise 77 Memphis Grizzlies Regular Season Games in 2016-17
MEMPHIS -- FOX Sports Southeast, the exclusive regional home of the Memphis Grizzlies, announced today it will televise 77 regular season games during the 2016-17 NBA season. The Grizzlies will tip off the 2016-17 schedule at home against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday, October 26. Coverage on FOX Sports Southeast will begin at 6:00 p.m. CT with a special one-hour Grizzlies LIVE! pregame show.
Games will also be available on FOX Sports GO (FOXSportsGo.com), a free app that provides live streaming video of Grizzlies games through select programming distributors, as well as other FOX Sports programming.
FOX Sports GO is currently available for iOS, Apple TV, Android, Android TV, Chromecast, Fire tablets and Fire phones, Roku players and Roku TV, select Windows devices, XBOX One and online at FOXSportsGO.com. Fans can download the mobile app for free from the iTunes App Store, Google Play, Amazon App Store and Windows Store. For more information, please reference the FOX Sports GO FAQ document by clicking HERE.
Click Here for a complete schedule of Grizzlies games on FOX Sports Southeast (schedule subject to change). Schedule highlights on FOX Sports Southeast:
-- The Grizzlies visit University of Memphis product Derrick Rose and the New York Knicks on Saturday, October 29, with pregame coverage starting at 6:00 p.m. CT.
-- The Grizzlies will host Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors on Saturday, December 10, with pregame coverage starting at 6:30 p.m. CT.
-- The Grizzlies will play the defending NBA Champion Cleveland Cavaliers on back-to-back nights, home and away, on Tuesday, December 13 (pregame coverage starts at 5:30 p.m. CT) and Wednesday, December 14 (pregame coverage starts at 6:30 p.m. CT).
-- The Grizzlies will host Dwight Howard and the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday, March 11, with pregame coverage starting at 7:30 p.m. CT.
Play-by-play announcer Pete Pranica (@PetePranica) will enter his 13th season as the television voice of the Grizzlies alongside former Grizzlies guard Brevin Knight (@brevinknight22), who will return for his seventh season as game analyst. Sean Tuohy, entering his eleventh season, will also be an analyst for select telecasts. Veteran NBA reporter Rob Fischer (@thefishnation) will be back on the sidelines for his tenth season.
Grizzlies LIVE!, the pregame and postgame show for all 77 Grizzlies game telecasts, will be hosted by Fisher, Knight and reporter Chris Vernon (@ChrisVernonShow), who will join the crew for all home game telecasts.
Grizzlies regular season games on FOX Sports Southeast will reach more than 6 million households throughout Tennessee and Kentucky, as well as parts of Alabama and Mississippi.
Grizzlies fans can find exclusive game-day photos, videos and features on FOX Sports Southeast's new team-specific Twitter handle: @GrizzliesOnFSSE. Additional Grizzlies content can be found on FOXSportsTennessee.com, Instagram and Facebook.
*Television schedule subject to change.
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About FOX Sports Southeast
The FOX Sports regional networks serving the Southeast â FOX Sports South, FOX Sports Carolinas, FOX Sports Tennessee and FOX Sports Southeast â collectively reach more than 13 million households across seven states. They are the television home of the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Dream, Atlanta Hawks, Carolina Hurricanes, Charlotte Hornets, Memphis Grizzlies, Nashville Predators, Cincinnati Reds, Indiana Pacers, New Orleans Pelicans, St. Louis Cardinals, UEFA Champions League and Bundesliga, as well as the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big 12 Conference, and Big East Conference. Combined, the networks televise nearly 1400 live events each year. For more information, please visit FOXSportsSouth.com, FOXSportsTennessee.com, and FOXSportsCarolinas.com.
