Herrington: Even on a team full of stars, Tyus Jones is playing best ball ever
Memphis Grizzlies guard Tyus Jones (21) shoots ahead of San Antonio Spurs center Jakob Poeltl, left, on Monday, Jan. 9, 2023. (Brandon Dill/AP)
Chris Herrington
Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.
Jones is a backup point guard, one of the better ones in the NBA. But he conceives himself as more, the Grizzlies now pay him as more, and over the past couple of seasons he’s been playing that way.
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