Grizzlies Mailbag: The Ja & Jaren core, FedExForum food ideas
Ja Morant, left, and Jaren Jackson Jr., right, have played six seasons together, sharing the floor an average of only 36.5 games per season, and have a single playoff-series win. (The Daily Memphian files)
And so we arrive, at the end of a first-ever three-part Mid-Summer Grizzlies Mailbag.
This installment focuses on big-picture and future-oriented topics, along with an arena food wish.
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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.
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