How’s it going, Shelby County? It’s Wednesday, Feb. 26, and Kyle Rittenhouse, who killed two people and wounded another at a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020, is back for a talk at the University of Memphis. Last time Rittenhouse was here, he was run off campus by protesters. Guess we’ll see how this goes.

In less divisive U of M news, the Tigers men’s basketball team plays Rice tonight at home. If you’re a fan of the Tigers’ Dain Dainja, you might want to go see him play while you still can.

Landry Duvall, 34, was born in Memphis but given up for adoption to a family in McMinnville, Tennessee. And just three months later, his birth mother died in a car accident in Memphis. Duvall didn’t find out about his mother’s death until college though, when he was working on a master’s degree in church music and choral conducting. When it came time to find a job, he wound up in Memphis as music director at Idlewild Presbyterian Church. And that began his improbable reunion with his birth family. The Daily Memphian’s Geoff Calkins has that story.

Star point guard Ja Morant thrives under pressure, and that’s exactly what happened Tuesday night in the Memphis Grizzlies’ 151-148 overtime victory against the Phoenix Suns at FedExForum. Morant was missing 3s early in the game, but he landed his first triple with under 10 seconds remaining and then buried a game-tying jumper from 18 feet away as the clock approached zero. So, yeah, the Griddy finally came out; it’s been awhile since we’ve seen Morant dance. Of course, the win was a group effort, and a miracle shot by Brandon Clarke helped with the overtime lead, too. 

Plus, a mom sues Shelby County over her son’s jail death, the Chelsea Greenline is finally moving along and Japan comes to Germantown.