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Before every season, Memphis Grizzlies officials offer Marc Gasol the chance to move his family four seats closer to the court. For as long as this franchise has played in the FedEx Forum, those seats have belonged to the Gasol brothers. Marc Gasol has always told his wife, his mother and father: Never come late to the game, never let him walk to the center jump without his eyes meeting theirs, without the serenity that comes from familiar faces in the familiarity of the Forum.