Late charge comes up short as Grizz fall to Magic, drop under .500 again
The Grizzlies lost an early lead and then couldn't complete a late comeback in falling to the Orlando Magic, 120-115.
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Chris Herrington covers the Memphis Grizzlies and writes about Memphis culture, food, and civic life. He lives in the Vollintine-Evergreen neighborhood of Midtown with his wife, two kids, and two dogs.
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The Grizzlies lost an early lead and then couldn't complete a late comeback in falling to the Orlando Magic, 120-115.
The NBA season has been suspended "until further notice" after a Utah Jazz player tested positive for COVID-19.
At home and on the other side of the country, the Grizzlies are in the same position as the rest of the NBA: Still trying to figure things out.
Daily Memphian Grizzlies writers Chris Herrington and Don Wade discuss the impact of coronavirus on the team and the NBA season. One likely possibility: If and when games resume, they do so absent fans in FedExForum and other NBA arenas.
While I was sitting in an oddly peaceful purgatory, people close to me have lost jobs and postponed weddings. I’ve eavesdropped on conversations about how to keep people employed while also keeping them safe.
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Whatever you think of his policy priorities, Strickland prides himself on being a data-driven executive, and his managerial seriousness has served him, and the city, well in this unprecedented moment.
A good year for the backcourt: The Grizzlies found a star in Ja Morant and keepers in Tyus Jones and De'Anthony Melton.
With three hit singles, two turf-grabbing country covers, definitive secular and religious anthems and some of the most tender pop music ever recorded, 1973's "Call Me" is Al Green's finest moment.
There are no good answers now. Only bad choices and worse ones. But evidence suggests that going hard on social-distancing is the best long-term bet for both public health and the economy.
The only Pulitzer Prize-winner with “Memphis” in the title, Peter Taylor's 1986 novel explores the fine social distinctions between Memphis and Nashville at mid-century.
Managing the coronavirus pandemic will be an uncertain process that takes more than a year to navigate. Are big public festivals compatible with this new reality?
Jaren Jackson Jr. took some big steps forward, and a couple to the side, in his second season. Looking ahead, he may be the Grizzlies' tipping-point player.
Our forced experiment in not-really-home-schooling is likely to accelerate educational inequalities. My kids have a fridge full of food, reliable internet and two still-employed parents at home. Many of their fellow public school students do not have all of these things. Too many may not have any of them.
At a Chicago church, on the day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Mississippi-bred bluesman Otis Spann delivered what arguably remains the most profound musical response to the tragedy.
The bootleg T-shirts that inspire Rebecca Fava’s face masks were symbols of a city coming together. Her masks, and other homemade endeavors like them, are perhaps fitting symbols of the city in pandemic times — coming together by staying apart.
From irritating "King James" to dunking on the "Greek Freak," the Grizzlies proved a surprise to the rest of the league this season. Here are the first 25 of the 50 best moments from a young team ahead of schedule.
From game-winning layups to buzzer-beating setups, Ja-dropping dunks landed or just missed, Ja Morant's personal highlight reel dominates our list of the best moments of the Grizzlies' season.
John Prine was raised in Illinois and settled in Nashville, but he recorded three of his first six albums at different Memphis studios, including his classic debut, “John Prine.”
Shelby County has had deaths in 2.25% of coronavirus cases, compared to 1.61% in the rest of the state and 0.84% in Nashville’s Davidson County. Does this suggest that racial disparities are spiking higher rates locally? For now we can only guess.
What do you do when the cupboard's kinda bare and you're not supposed to go shopping and even if you do the stores are nearly empty?
In a month’s time, during the late summer of 1878, the city’s population plummeted from 50,000 to 20,000, with the vast majority of those remaining infected by the fever. Crosby's "The American Plague" takes you to this crucible moment in Memphis history, and helps explain what it meant.
Take-and-bake “pizza kits” of three of Hog & Hominy’s most elemental pies are available as part of the curbside takeout program at Catherine & Mary’s on South Main.
In 1997, Matt Damon's first starring role and Francis Ford Coppola's last major film intersected in Memphis with the third and (so far) final locally set John Grisham adapation.
These are not just places to go to find a thing you know you want. They are places to be. To share space with people who share your affinities. They are at their best when you go in just to browse and a book or record finds you.