Herrington: Thoughts on Ja Morant’s absence, and Brandon Clarke’s
The magnitude of the Morant news has overshadowed a gutting injury to Brandon Clarke, who suffered a torn Achilles at Denver on Friday night.
Chris Herrington
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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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The Early WordThe Early Word: Tigers, Grizzlies have big weekend, for better and worse
Memphis in May’s getting a deal, Memphis Black Restaurant Week begins and Saturday night’s alright for owl sightings at Overton Park.
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Grizzlies Podcast Grizzlies podcast: March playoff picture
Drew Hill and Chris Herrington discuss the challenging schedule ahead and how the playoff picture looks at the moment for the Memphis Grizzlies.
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Grizzlies Podcast Grizzlies players on The Ringer’s Top 100 with Rob Mahoney
On this bonus edition of the Grizzlies Podcast, Chris Herrington is joined by The Ringer’s Rob Mahoney.
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Memphis Grizzlies Herrington: The crucial part of the Grizzlies’ (regular) season starts now
The Memphis Grizzlies have 21 games left in this NBA regular season, and the Western Conference playoff race is so tight that intrigue could linger to the final day.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Alvin Ailey, Black country music and lot of Elvises
This week, the Dixon and Theatre Memphis celebrate women in the arts, Step Afrika steps into GPAC and there’s a chili showdown at Memphis Made.
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Music Herrington: The Music Fest lineup is terrible! (Actually, it’s totally fine)
It never looks great on paper, but you can always be guaranteed that great stuff will happen. Like a magisterial Jill Scott cracking jokes and dispensing love advice, Sturgill Simpson surprising with a lacerating, hard country-soul set or that time that a nervy Randy Newman surveyed the afternoon crowd and began playing an unedited version of “Rednecks.”
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Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies demolish conference-leading Nuggets
This battle between the West’s two top teams evened the season series 1-1, with a third and final (for now) meeting coming next Friday in Denver.
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Memphis Grizzlies New dad Tyus Jones breaks slump, gets postgame assist
The best assist of all came after the final buzzer, from pint-sized point guard in training Tyus Jones Jr., the toddler who climbed into his dad’s lap at the postgame dais and got things started.
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Grizzlies Podcast Grizzlies Podcast: What to look for as games return
In this bonus edition of the Daily Memphian Grizzlies Podcast, Chris Herrington welcomes back recurring guest Keith Parish, host of the Grits and Grinds and Fastbreak Breakfast podcasts.
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The To-Do List To-Do List: Blaxploitation on the big screen and belated Mardi Gras parties
This week, the U.S. Poet Laureate will read at Rhodes, Spillit stops in Orange Mound and Ballet Memphis pays homage to love.
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Memphis Grizzlies As Grizzlies return, the competition is tougher and questions grow
The Grizzlies pulled out of a recent swoon by winning three of four games before the All-Star break.
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Grizzlies Podcast Grizzlies podcast: All-Stars, Ja Raffe and grandmas
Drew Hill and Chris Herrington discuss the All-Star break, potential playoff matchups and the annual update to the Grizzlies Glossary.
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Memphis GrizzliesThe Memphis Grizzlies Glossary
From alley-oops to Z-bounds, "all heart, grit, grind" to the Zombie Grizzlies, an alphabetical survey of Grizzlies on-court and fan culture in Memphis.
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FoodDelta, Mexican or Memphis style: A guide to some of the Mid-South’s best tamales
Delta-style, Mexican and other kinds of tamales can be found all around Memphis. Here are some of the best.
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$15 Deals $10 Deal: Try the barbecue baked potato at Germantown Commissary
Nachos? Pizza? Salad? Spaghetti? Germantown Commissary offers another way to serve up Memphis barbecue.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Count birds, eat soup and celebrate Mardi Gras
This week, Leyla McCalla plays Crosstown Theater, Kristin Chenoweth signs her book and Ukrainian artists share how war has changed their culture.
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Chris Herrington Grizzlies Mailbag: Trade deadline aftermath and on-court concerns
With the trade deadline over and the All-Star break one game away, Chris Herrington shares his wisdom on all things Memphis Grizzlies.
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Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies blow early lead, hold off Jazz rally for win
The Grizzlies were hot early, but had to hold on for dear life late, their 24-point lead in the first half reduced to only one in the second.
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Grizzlies Podcast Grizzlies podcast: Is big trade coming this summer?
Drew Hill and Chris Herrington discuss the comments from Memphis Grizzlies president of basketball operations and general manager Zach Kleiman after the trade deadline.
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Music As late Stax founder gets a special Grammy, a peek into his post-label life
At one time, Stax founder Jim Stewart had musicians such as Otis Redding and Janis Joplin over to his house. He hasn’t always gotten a lot of fanfare himself, but that was part of his M.O.
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Memphis Grizzlies Herrington: Grizzlies trade should help now, and maybe more later
Notes on what the Memphis Grizzlies did — and didn’t do — at Thursday’s NBA trade deadline.
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Memphis Grizzlies Herrington: What Grizzlies fans should know as NBA trade deadline arrives
My best sense is that the Grizzlies aren’t desperate to deal. But most of the team’s perimeter reserves have declined of late, in performance and/or in playing time, which suggests a real immediate need as the playoffs loom.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: TEDx, pinball and your Valentine’s Day events guide
This week, the Memphis Botanic Garden pairs Phillip Ashley Chocolates with whiskey, and Old Dominick pairs whiskey with the Super Bowl. Plus, Don Bryant and The Bo-Keys play the Halloran.
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FoodLuLu’s takes vegan fare from farmers market to Poplar Ave.
For Don Gaines and Stephanie Blanda, their pastry, sandwich, cake, soup, bread and bagel business is rooted in what they’d sought as consumers but struggled to find locally.
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