Grizzlies 25: Brandon Clarke is perhaps the team’s all-time top ‘sixth man’
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This is the 25th season of the Grizzlies in Memphis. To commemorate the anniversary, “Grizzlies 25” will count down the greatest players in Memphis Grizzlies history throughout the season.
A list of any franchise’s best players will mostly include those who heard their names first called at the beginning of games, not later on, when the reserves check in from the sideline.
But real teams have sixth men — and seventh and eighth and ninth — and if an all-time Memphis Grizzlies team had a “sixth man” who actually played the role, it would be Brandon Clarke.
Clarke is the highest-ranked player in the Grizzlies 25 to have come off the bench in the majority of his games, with only 48 of Clarke’s so-far 307 regular-season appearances in the starting lineup.
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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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