The Memphis Grizzlies were able to land a young former NBA Draft lottery prospect in Ben McLemore this summer, but the relationship's gotten off on the wrong foot.

McLemore signed a two-year, $10.7 million contract with Memphis as an unrestricted free agent after the Sacramento Kings declined their option to make him restricted via tendering a qualifying offer this summer. It was a solid deal to add a young player with upside for Memphis. 

The Grizzlies are already looking at trouble with McLemore, though. The once highly-touted guard suffered a devastating injury during a pickup basketball game in Los Angeles that is expected to sideline him from all basketball activities for months. 

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Memphis announced that McLemore suffered a non-displaced fracture of the fifth metatarsal in his right foot, which will sideline him for approximately 12 weeks. He landed on another player's foot during a game of hoops and sustained the injury. 

That's horrible news for Memphis across the board. Even if he's back within the first month of the regular season, McLemore will have missed training camp, practice and an entire offseason of becoming acclimated with competing alongside his new team. 

That it happened during a pickup game makes it even more painful for the Grizzlies, but there's little a team can do besides completely bar players from hooping during the summer. At the rate injuries have been occurring during random summer games - Brandon Knight tore his ACL in July and has already been ruled out for the season - that may be next up in the fine print of some contracts.

Players are going to play basketball during the offseason, though, and there's nothing that can stop a freak injury from happening besides barring athletic activities as a whole. That's incredibly unlikely to happen, and the NBA players' union would likely have a thing or two to say about that.

The Grizzlies are going to have to take the hit and move forward without a key offseason acquisition, which won't help them hold off a slew of Western Conference teams taking aim at their playoff spot. 

The injury will absolutely cut into the regular season, which is set to start a week earlier than usual in October. McLemore may not have reached his potential yet, but the 24-year-old guard figured to be a big part of the Grizzlies going forward. Everything's on pause, and hopes have to be that this foot injury doesn't derail his young career.