Trade Deadline Tracker: Waiting on a Ja Morant deal
The NBA trade deadline is 2 p.m. Thursday. Here’s the landscape as of Wednesday afternoon.
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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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: Analyzing the JJJ deal — and what’s next for the Grizzlies
Chris Herrington wades into the Jaren Jackson Jr. trade, explains what happened Tuesday and what it means and what it suggests.
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Memphis GrizzliesGrizzlies 25: Mike Miller’s jump shot was one version of basketball beauty
Mike Miller averaged 14 points off the bench for the 49-win 2005-2006 Grizzlies, winning the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year award, one of only five Grizzlies to receive one of the NBA’s major annual awards.
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Visual Arts Memphis Movies This Week: ‘Send Help’ is a good time, and ‘Macbeth’ is at Crosstown
Stranded on a South Pacific island with Rachel McAdams? Be careful what you wish for in Sam Raimi’s “Send Help.”
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Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies enjoy team-wide romp in last home game before trade deadline
It was the first win for the Grizzlies on their home floor since Jan. 11 against the Brooklyn Nets.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: Ty Jerome’s return, GG Jackson’s reemergence and Mike Conley nearing the end
As we finally arrive at the NBA’s trade deadline week, let’s survey a few pressing Grizzlies topics.
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January 2026
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Chris HerringtonHerrington: A Robert Pera report, looming trade deadline distract from a Grizzlies season taking a turn
A week out from the trade deadline, the Grizzlies seemed focused on the future. What that means for Ja Morant and the rest of the roster remains a mystery.
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Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies stall out in listless loss to Hornets
The Grizzlies never led by more than three points and trailed most of the way.
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Memphis GrizzliesGrizzlies 25: Lorenzen Wright completed a singular Memphis basketball journey
The late Lorenzen Wright was a homegrown star, a McDonald’s All-American at Booker T. Washington High, who played for Larry Finch at the University of Memphis, before joining the Grizzlies.
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Visual Arts Memphis Movies This Week: International, animated Oscar nominees open
Five major-category Oscar nominees that have been available on local screens during the storm will stick around next week. This week also welcomes a couple of new Oscar nominees to town.
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Chris HerringtonHerrington: Noem invoked Memphis to defend Minneapolis killing. She’s wrong about both cities.
Minneapolis-St. Paul, where I now have a home, has been abused. Memphis, which has been my home for the majority of my life, is now being used.
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Memphis GrizzliesGrizzlies lose another double-digit lead, fall to Pelicans
Coach Tumoas Iisalo noted then that in a faster-paced, higher-scoring NBA, leads are not as safe as they once were. But keeping a lead has still been more of a problem for the Grizzlies than for most teams.
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Arts & Culture Twenty years after ‘Hustle & Flow,’ Craig Brewer directs another Oscar-nominated performance
When Oscar nominations were announced Thursday, Jan. 22, one relative surprise was a Best Actress nomination for Kate Hudson, who plays Milwaukee tribute singer Claire Sardina in “Song Sung Blue.”
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Visual Arts Memphis Movies This Week: See Oscar hopefuls ‘The Secret Agent,’ ‘Sentimental Value’ while you can
The Oscar nominations will be announced Thursday and will be followed locally by a bundle of expected nominees making their debut on local screens, making a return or expanding their footprint.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: Morant returns to Memphis in good form and good spirit, but the big questions remain
Morant was good on the court Wednesday and off of it. Does any of this have any impact on Morant’s future or that of the franchise?
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Grizzlies had a tough call to make. A bigger one involving Ja Morant looms.
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Memphis GrizzliesGrizzlies 25: Jason Williams was basketball chaos, for good or ill, on the court or in the postgame locker room
Williams might sail an eye-popping pass through the defense for a lay-up no-one else could see was possible, or he might swipe a reporter’s pen.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: Did Ja Morant’s London showcase move the trade market, or shift Grizzlies interest in moving him?
Chris Herrington weighs in on the latest of everything Ja Morant-related after Morant and the Memphis Grizzlies beat the Orlando Magic in London.
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Memphis GrizzliesGrizzlies 25: James Posey defined the franchise’s first good team
Although James Posey wasn’t technically a single-season player for the Memphis Grizzlies, he’s the best single-season story in franchise history.
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Visual Arts Memphis Movies This Week: ‘No Other Choice,’ ‘28 Years Later’
Chris Herrington notes that “January and February can bring the late arrival of some of the prior year’s best films, especially of the foreign-language variety.”
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Memphis Grizzlies Ja Morant likely to play Sunday in London
In London, Morant could play his first Grizzlies game in weeks. Could it also be his last?
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Grizzlies Podcast Grizzlies podcast: Memphis entertaining trades for Ja Morant
Drew Hill and Chris Herrington sort through the reasons Memphis may be interested in trading Ja Morant and the upcoming week of international games.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: A messy, newsy day for Ja Morant and the Grizzlies
Ja Morant’s answers were brief in Berlin, but at least one of them was telling.
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Grizzlies provide injury updates on Clarke, Edey, Pippen Jr.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: After win, Berlin-bound Grizzlies take Ja Morant uncertainty overseas
The Memphis Grizzlies rebounded from a loss to the Oklahoma City with a win over the Brooklyn Nets as the Ja Morant trade watch continues.
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Cedric Coward hits 2 late 3s to help the Grizzlies beat the Nets 103-98
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: Laying out Ja Morant trade scenarios
Two teams in particular seem like a reasonable partner in a Ja Morant deal, but do either have real interest? And who else on the Grizzlies roster could be in play at the NBA trade deadline?
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: Why is a Ja Morant trade now possible? Follow the money — and three seasons of disappointment.
What’s seemingly broken up Ja Morant’s future with the Grizzlies? It wasn’t a gusher of off-court problems but a slow drip of on-court problems — and the pressures of money and time.
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