Grizzlies coach updates Smart, Kennard injury status
Guards Marcus Smart and Luke Kennard were injured in Memphis’ road loss to the Los Angeles Lakers. Grizzlies Insider: Despite injuries, it’s too early to punt the seasonRelated story:
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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.
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Guards Marcus Smart and Luke Kennard were injured in Memphis’ road loss to the Los Angeles Lakers. Grizzlies Insider: Despite injuries, it’s too early to punt the seasonRelated story:
With just a week to go before Thanksgiving, one might be craving turkey now. Here’s a handy guide where to get some of the Bluff City’s best bird.
Drew Hill and Chris Herrington discuss the doom and gloom surrounding the Grizzlies and share their appreciation for Jacob Gilyard.
In a changing world where institutions and ideals are ever fragile, your dining room table is the place to hold the line.
This week, single folks share their stories, Friends of George’s kicks off the holiday season and we learn to move past the trauma of those sad children’s movies from the 1990s. (“All Dogs Go to Heaven,” we’re looking at you.)
If you had been told, just after the Grizzlies were eliminated from the playoffs last spring, that the team would be starting Jacob Gilyard and Bismack Biyombo nine games into the following season, you might have guessed the season was going very poorly.
The decade-long struggle over a patch of grass in Overton Park has reflected a changing city and served as a kind of proxy battle for larger civic questions.
It’s barely the second week of November, and the Grizzlies are already two-thirds of the way to last season’s total home losses.
For Downtown Dining Week, Chris Herrington visited Momma’s and said the restaurant’s fried chicken sandwich just might take the title for the city’s best.
Drew Hill and Chris Herrington discuss how the Grizzlies secured their first win of the season on Sunday night.
Viewers can continue to find the Grizzlies on Bally for the rest of this season. The broadcast status beyond this season is now “to be determined.”
But if two wins would have been a lot better than one, the Grizzlies return home this week with something more than that one win: they’re bringing back a more functional team than the one they left with. Grizzlies Insider: All-business Bismack Biyombo is quickly making fansRelated story:
This week, learn about the fungus among us at Meeman-Shelby, cheese the day at the Hi-Tone and get ready to spruce up your holiday tree at John Mark’s.
Drew Hill and Chris Herrington try to make sense of the Grizzlies’ 0-5 start to the season.
One of the film’s tag lines is “dive into her world,” and Memphis will get its chance this weekend. Here are a few ways of thinking about Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” and how it compares to “Elvis.”
Memphis is checking some popular food-trend boxes while others, such as a Brazilian restaurant, still elude the area.
The Memphis Grizzlies are 0-4 for the first time since 2004 (when they won 45 games and made the playoffs, by the way) and they cannot score. Their offense currently ranks 26th out of 30 NBA teams.
Coach Taylor Jenkins watched his team play a much better game against a much better opponent this second time out, and seemed about as at peace as a coach can be after a loss.
This week, 1990s R&B legends Tony! Toni! Tone! play the Orpheum, spooky double dutch comes to Tom Lee and you can sample your way around India at the Agricenter.
“The Blues Society” captures the richness and inspiration of a cultural moment in Memphis, with performance footage of musicians such as Furry Lewis and Rev. Robert Wilkins and home-video footage of bohemian Memphis.
Drew Hill and Chris Herrington discuss the fallout of the Steven Adams injury news and recap the loss in the home opener.
The Grizzlies were too reliant on 3-point shooting and had no defensive presence at the rim when Jaren Jackson Jr. wasn’t on the floor are two of the observations from the first game of the season.
This week’s restaurant news brings us a spate of openings and closings as well as the sale of a longtime family business.
When the Grizzlies take the court Wednesday, it will do so without three of what would have been its top seven players, together accounting for $60 million of the team’s $150 million in player salary. How will the team refashion themselves on the fly? Grizzlies Insider: Despite Ja Morant suspension, ticket sales still on the rise for MemphisRelated stories:
Chris Herrington has all the info on the festival’s major features, movies of local interest and the revivals you can’t miss.