Grizzlies 25: Ja Morant’s peak years were a mountain of unforgettable moments
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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.
Career value or peak value? A player’s total body of work vs. how good they were at their best.
That player-rankings formulation from baseball writer Bill James animates the ordering across the Grizzlies 25 list, but nowhere is it as pressing as in the comparison of the franchise’s two great point guards.
Mike Conley never made an All-Star team in Memphis, but he remains the franchise’s all-time leader in points, assists and steals while manning the wheel for four playoff series wins.
Ja Morant burned hotter, and now it seems like his Grizzlies tenure is about to burn out. If he’s played his last game in Memphis, he will depart as the franchise’s eighth-leading scorer, third in assists and 10th in steals, and will have won a single playoff series.
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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 now splits his time between Minneapolis-St. Paul, where his wife works, and Memphis.
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