Calkins: Can a 30-year-old whiz kid save the Grizzlies?
Zachary Kleiman (left), the Memphis Grizzlies' new executive vice president of basketball operations, talks to communications and publications manager Ross Wooden before a media event Friday, April 12, 2019. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Geoff Calkins
Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. He is host of "The Geoff Calkins Show" from 9-11 a.m. M-F on 92.9 FM. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.
The Grizzlies took a risk when they hired 30-year-old Zach Kleiman to lead their personnel department. But that doesn't mean Kleiman can't do the job.
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