Grizzlies Game Day: A must-win home opener?
A home opener is supposed to be a day of celebration, whatever the future holds, not a time for the biting of fingernails.
Chris Herrington
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October 2018
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Road Recap: Pacers 111, Grizzlies 83
In the first half, Marc Gasol looked a lot like his team: slow of foot and uncertain of mind. Gasol got (a little bit) better in the second half, which was more than you could say for the team as a whole.
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The Memphis 10: Crosstown crowned, Memphis in Chicago and (sort of) on the big screen, and more
Two weeks ago in this space, I suggested The Memphis 10 would be taking a two-week hiatus, one for some fall break family travels and a second for an NBA/Grizzlies opening-week workload.
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Grizzlies Game Day: The history of franchise rookie debuts
When Jaren Jackson Jr. takes the court Wednesday night in Indianapolis, he will become the youngest player to ever suit up for the Grizzlies, in Memphis or Vancouver. Jackson’s debut is perhaps the most intriguing thing about this season’s opener, but how much does a debut typically tell us?
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Six reasons for fans to be excited about this Grizzlies season
On the cusp of this Memphis Grizzlies season, the franchise’s 18th in Memphis, the prevailing questions have been been about the team: How good can they be? How concerning were their preseason struggles? But let’s take a moment to talk about you.
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Turn Four: How worried should the Grizzlies be about preseason struggles?
When former Grizzlies head coach Dave Joerger needed a bucket, he’d yell “Turn Four,” a call for Zach Randolph to get the ball. When we need to mull over the big questions at key moments in the Grizzlies season, we use it to call a Daily Memphian quorum.
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Grizzlies Season Preview: Can this team be any good?
Everyone’s happy the NBA preseason has shrunk. Not long ago, eight games was the norm. Now every team plays between four and six. The result is fewer games that don’t count, padded out by players who won’t be on regular season rosters; more air into an 82-game real season that needed extra rest time. Win-win, right?
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NBA Preview: Notes and record predictions for all 30 teams
There are different levels of NBA fandom. Some care about their team and some care about the entire league. There’s no right or wrong way to be a fan, but the following NBA-wide deep dive is for the latter kind.
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Montgomery to Memphis
If you want to really know your country, Memphis is a good place to start. Artists such as Howlin’ Wolf and Elvis Presley brought American culture together and sent it around the world from a studio only steps from where a slave trader was celebrated in a city park. Martin Luther King Jr. marched for economic justice, climbed to the mountaintop, and was taken by an assassin’s bullet, all within a triangle separated by a couple of miles.
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Former Tiger D.J. Stephens signs two-way contract with Grizzlies
Former Memphis Tigers standout D.J. Stephens has been signed to a two-way contract by the Memphis Grizzlies, the team announced Monday evening.
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Kyle Anderson, trio of backup point guard candidates look to expand the Grizzlies’ playmaking palette
During the decade-long Mike Conley and Marc Gasol era, a dearth of three-point shooting elsewhere on the roster has consistently plagued the Grizzlies. Only once in this stretch have the Grizzlies finished in the Top 20 in three-point attempts and only twice in three-point percentage, never higher than 17th on the accuracy front.
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Grizzlies veterans lead way in home preseason debut
Score one for the grown folks.
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The Memphis 10: Trump visit, aftermath of Trenary murder mark a messy week
It was a week of sobering news and a news-making Presidential visit. Because the opening items underscore reckonings that came, alternately, from us and to us, I kept it light on the rest of this week’s 10.
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Grizzlies Roster Preview: Plenty of room in the rotation for both Jaren Jackson Jr. and JaMychal Green
A tale of two Media Day scrums: Jaren Jackson Jr. sat encircled, with microphones, recorders, and TV cameras surrounding Castle Jackson like an impenetrable moat. He held court with a big smile, talking about rap albums and Netflix shows, essaying the locker-room generation gap for which he’s the poster manchild in a manner that tiptoed the line between guileless and knowing.
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Grizzlies make home preseason debut in weekend back-to-back
The Grizzlies preseason just started, and by Sunday morning it will be more than half over.
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Conley, Parsons strong in Grizzlies preseason debut
The Grizzlies made their preseason debut Tuesday night in Birmingham with a 131-115 loss to the Houston Rockets. Scores don’t really matter in the preseason, but here’s a chain of thoughts on things that might:
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Grizzlies Roster Preview: Garrett Temple, Dillon Brooks and Wayne Selden all have a case for the starting lineup
Editor’s Note: This is the third of a five-part series previewing the Grizzlies roster.
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September 2018
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Grizzlies Roster Preview: Chandler Parsons, MarShon Brooks are offensive X-factors
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a five-part series previewing the Grizzlies roster.
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The Memphis 10: ‘Tennessee values’ in the Bredesen-Blackburn race, Brooks ‘Outside,’ Mark Edgar Stuart’s new album, and more
Welcome back to The Memphis 10, the only place where you'll find Marsha Blackburn and the Oblivians hanging out together.
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A cooking Marc Gasol and dancing Jaren Jackson Jr. highlight Grizzlies giveaways for 2018-2019 season
Marc Gasol in the kitchen. Mike Conley making Christmas mischief. Jaren Jackson Jr. in motion. A title around your waist.
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Grizzlies Roster Preview: Mike Conley, Marc Gasol now NBA’s longest-lasting duo
Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of five Grizzlies roster previews. Other stories will appear in the coming days.
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Conley a full participant as Grizzlies open training camp
After talk comes action. On Monday morning, the Grizzlies assembled in the Don Poier Media Center near the eastern edge of FedExForum for an audience of Memphis (and Japanese) media. On Tuesday morning, suited and high-top-sneaker booted, they migrated west to the Forum practice court to assemble for their head coach.
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Food Fight: Gus’s vs. Uncle Lou’s
As near as anyone can tell, people have been frying food since the Middle Ages. I like to think that this unknown date, when a first fritter was dunked in boiling fat, was our true moment of civilization. Around the world, perhaps nothing fries up as nicely as a chicken. Setting aside vegetarians and the extremely health conscious, it is everyone’s favorite food. Right?
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As Grizzlies ready for training camp, here are six looming questions
The Memphis Grizzlies will hold their annual Media Day gathering on Monday, and will hit the training-camp hardwood the next day. Many questions will be asked amid Media Day scrums, but the most important ones won’t be answered on that day or even, fully, in the days and weeks that follow. But it’s a start.
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Brooks Museum showcases quartet of new exhibits and installations
On Saturday, the Brooks Museum of Art will be active inside and out. The work of renowned Barcelona sculptor and artist Jaume Plensa will make a Memphis debut as his “Talking Continents” exhibit opens to the public. Meanwhile, a secretive, week-long “Outings" project installation from French artist Julien de Casabianca will begin at parts unknown across the city.
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The Memphis 10: Al Green and Willie Herenton return, Kyle Taylor paints, and more
The heritage of Hi Records brackets this first weekly list, with the sound of Al Green and the image of guitarist/songwriter Teenie Hodges making unexpected appearances. Elsewhere, our criminal justice system bears watching, next year’s mayor’s race gets weird, and our food trucks get some pub.
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Consumer’s Guide to the 2018-2019 Grizzlies Home Schedule
From a competitive standpoint, the Memphis Grizzlies’ 2018-2019 schedule is the kind of unremarkable to which NBA schedule-makers aspire.
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Grizzlies introduce well-traveled quartet of veteran additions
What did you do this summer?
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The Memphis 10 (Summer Edition): Aretha’s house, the ACLU trial, Craig Brewer’s movie, and more
Welcome to The Memphis 10, which, starting this Thursday, will be a (mostly) weekly collection of observations – commentary, criticism, news, links, songs, etc. – on the week in Memphis.
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The Grizzlies' back to the future offseason
The Grizzlies’ seven-year playoff streak ended hard last season, and with shocking quickness. The unraveling included a fired coach, one star hitting the pine after 12 games, another star left alone and unhappy, the odd non-trade-then-disappearance of a veteran free-agent-to-be, and waves of discomfort for a fan base that had grown accustomed to consistent, if limited, success.
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