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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 Memphis Grizzlies were crazy-busy in the opening hour of free agency, but there’s still a lot of little items left on the to-do list. Let’s do some housekeeping.
This week the Hi-Tone Cafe hosts a market with queer vendors and free hot dogs. Plus a couple of guys named Lee join forces with a Sheikholeslami for an art show at the Dixon Gallery & Gardens.
And “Spinal Tap” goes to 41.
An hour and eight minutes into free agency, the Grizzlies had reached four agreements and were one reported contract buyout away from having the 15-man roster the team could take into next season.
Memphis Grizzlies news, notes, observations and analysis as the NBA’s summer free agency opens, including items on Santi Aldama and Jaren Jackson Jr.
Don’t expect fireworks from the Grizzlies in the days ahead with either big additions or big departures.
This week, Memphis Listening Lab turns four, art pairs with wine at the Brooks and there’s ballroom dancing on the Bluff.
Let’s pause between 2025 NBA Draft rounds to take stock with some next-day notes and reactions to the Memphis Grizzlies’ first-round move, how it might impact the rest of their summer and second-round expectations.
How good will the rookie be? That’s always a key question. But this time another looms: How soon?Related content:
A roundup of mock drafts and draft-related rumors, musings on the potential Grizzlies ramifications of leaguewide pre-draft trades and other new thoughts and observations.
“Brad Pitt and race cars? I guess Father’s Day comes twice this year.”
Chris Herrington outlines four different things the Memphis Grizzlies could do with their first-round pick in this week’s 2025 NBA Draft.
A new Agri-Education center in North Mississippi, a board-game bar expands and we’re talking Tigers.
As the NBA offseason rolls down the on-ramp, there’s been so much noise around the Memphis Grizzlies that one of the team’s biggest and most unavoidable issues has felt forgotten.
Back to “Brokeback Mountain” and why you should see “Materialists.”
The Demond Bane trade instantly reframes the Grizzlies’ summer from one with limited means to add players to one with theoretically unlimited means. Who are some of the players the team may go after? Potential Grizzlies targets with first-round draft pick, if they don’t trade itRelated content:
With Bane headed to Orlando, Drew Hill and Chris Herrington discuss the haul of players and draft picks the Grizzlies got in return.
A look at what the Grizzlies got, why they did the trade, where it leaves the team going into the summer and what could be next.Related story:
Drew Hill and Chris Herrington react to the news Zach Edey will be reevaluated in four months following ankle surgery.
The “Rock and Roll Granny,” the man who went down to the Crossroads, a titan of Memphis radio and three noted soul/R&B singers of different stripes and generations are the new inductees of the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.
A look at the guards and wing players that might be available in the Grizzlies’ price range.
A new documentary about late musician Jeff Buckley is headed to theaters this summer, but will it be headed to a theater near you?
This week, Juneteenth gets started early, the BoDeans are at the Shell and the Memphis Social Bicycle Club races — in drag.
Zach Edey has undergone ankle surgery. Which NBA big men might the Memphis Grizzlies consider acquiring this summer?
Plus, Chris Herrington ranks the Wes Anderson films he’s seen.