Aaron McKie, who began the season as a volunteer assistant coach with the Sixers before being used as part of the Pau Gasol trip, wasn’t with the Grizzlies on Wednesday night for what coach Marc Iavaroni said were personal reasons.

Even so, McKie’s name appeared on the dry erase board running down the list of opponents and their tendencies.

Next to McKie’s name, which was last, assistant coach Jimmy Lynam wrote, “Savvey vet; doesn’t shoot as well as he thinks he does; used to defend.”

Not wanting to miss a chance to get in on the comedy, someone else expanded on that with “Don’t defend, rotate off him.”

Speaking of Iavaroni, who was on the 1982-83 Sixers, he’s actually just one of four guys with the Grizzlies with ties to Philly. In addition to McKie, there’s also Kyle Lowry and Hakim Warrick.

Lowry, who went to Cardinal Dougherty and Villanova, was asked if he’d ever seen his coach play.

“You watch the old film you see him hacking and fouling and setting some hard screens,” he said. “But he did a great job. He knew his role and he made a living at it.”

He also won a ring doing it.