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<strong>Former Tennessee State head coach Brian Collins is now a Memphis Grizzlies coach.</strong> (Mark Zaleski/AP file)Premium Memphis Grizzlies

Herrington: What’s left as Grizzlies shift from free agency to summertime

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.

By Chris Herrington 2 hours ago
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Herrington: The Grizzlies worked fast in free agency. Could they be done?

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. 

By Chris Herrington July 01, 2025
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Buckley: Memphis Tigers coach feels like he’s working in the pros. Again.

“A decade after leaving the NFL, it’s basically as if the Memphis Tigers' Ryan Silverfield is back coaching professional football.”

By Tim Buckley June 30, 2025
Premium Geoff Calkins

Calkins: Shane Young is leaving Memphis. But Memphis Inner City Rugby is changing lives for good.

Shane Young came to Memphis for the mountains. Hey, everyone makes mistakes. But he leaves a thriving MIRC.

By Geoff Calkins 15 hours ago

Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: Hiring Feagins was ‘magnificient’
Letter to the Editor: ‘I’ve never experienced concierge-level service’ for trash in Memphis
Letter to the Editor: Conaway’s COVID column included too much scolding
Letter to the Editor: Elected officials should join business leaders on crime
Letter to the Editor: Council members should be ashamed over pay and benefits votes
Letter to the Editor: TDOT needs to realize that ‘neighborhoods are not static’
Letter to the Editor: City Council should wait before raising the mayor’s salary
Letter to the Editor: Three 6 Mafia song a ‘bridge between the past and the present’
Letter to the Editor: Three 6 Mafia song has ‘no place as an anthem for a leader’

  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: ‘Death spiral will continue for public transit’

    “There is time for all Memphians of good will to ask their council representatives to properly fund MATA for daily riders, the businesses that employ them and the good of the entire city.”

    By Leo Arnoult, Dennis Lynch 17 hours ago
  • Premium Memphis Grizzlies

    Herrington: What are the Grizzlies doing this summer? Just listen to them.

    Don’t expect fireworks from the Grizzlies in the days ahead with either big additions or big departures.

    By Chris Herrington June 28, 2025
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: ‘Empowering small businesses to shape Memphis’ future’

    “Every storefront that opens, every local business that expands and every entrepreneur who secures funding contributes to the economic vitality of our city.”

    By Joann Massey June 28, 2025
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: After 25 years, it’s time to put some local teeth in our game

    “We don’t need to borrow an identity. Nashville has been borrowing ours for decades. When my ad agency handled the NBA Grizzlies introduction to Memphis, I tried to make that point.”

    By Dan Conaway June 27, 2025
  • Premium Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: It’s the end of an era in Memphis. Here’s Sister Trudy to explain.

    One hundred and forty-one years ago, the first Sisters of Charity of Nazareth arrived in Memphis. On Monday, the last one left town. But Sister Trudy Foster left behind a legacy — and some words to live by.

    By Geoff Calkins June 27, 2025
  • Premium Memphis Grizzlies

    Grizzlies Draft Day Notebook: Coward cost, JJJ impact and the second round

    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.

    By Chris Herrington June 26, 2025
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Memphis has the chance to lead the AI revolution

    “Memphis is at a crossroads, and the path to vitality lies in bold economic development.”

    By Kemp Conrad June 26, 2025
  • Premium Otis Sanford

    Sanford: Addressing Memphis’ challenges requires more than talk

    First it was Kash Patel — then Stephen A. Smith and Roland Martin.

    By Otis Sanford June 26, 2025
  • Premium Memphis Grizzlies

    Herrington: Grizzlies bet on potential stardom

    How good will the rookie be? That’s always a key question. But this time another looms: How soon?

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    Grizzlies trade up in NBA Draft, select Cedric Coward

    Grizzlies Draft Day Notebook: Roundups, reactions and more

    By Chris Herrington June 26, 2025
  • Premium Memphis Grizzlies

    Herrington: Memphis Grizzlies’ NBA Draft intrigue starts at No. 16

    Chris Herrington outlines four different things the Memphis Grizzlies could do with their first-round pick in this week’s 2025 NBA Draft. 

    By Chris Herrington June 24, 2025
  • Premium Sports

    Calkins: Nobody can replace Fred Smith. (But he told us how to handle this, too.)

    It’s impossible to imagine Memphis without Fred Smith. So what happens next? 

    Related content: 

    ‘Most important Memphian of all time’ has died

    By Geoff Calkins June 23, 2025
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Trump’s defunding of universities is an attack on knowledge itself

    “It is hard to understand how defunding scientific research and the arts, and preventing the enrollment of international students, aligns with the administration’s stated goal of combating antisemitism.”

    By Micah Greenstein June 22, 2025
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: Wide-eyed wonder, our town discovered

    “He got out of the car knowing his grandfather better, and his grandfather found his own hope in the wide eyes beside him.”

    By Dan Conaway June 20, 2025
  • Premium Memphis Grizzlies

    Herrington: When free agency arrives, spotlight’s on Grizzly Santi Aldama

    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.

    By Chris Herrington June 19, 2025
  • Premium Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: Ja Morant stuck up for Memphis. Now, how about you?

    Ja Morant took on ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith and his misperceptions of Memphis. But Smith isn’t the only one talking trash. 

    By Geoff Calkins June 17, 2025
  • Premium Memphis Grizzlies

    Hill: Goodbye to Desmond Bane, a ‘real dude’ who represented Memphis well

    “In times of tumult, Bane felt like the rock of the Grizzlies’ locker room. He was the voice of reason within the media, and he wore it as a badge of honor.”

    By Drew Hill June 18, 2025
  • Premium Memphis Grizzlies

    Herrington: After Bane deal, trade market is wide open for Grizzlies

    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?

    Related content:

    Potential Grizzlies targets with first-round draft pick, if they don’t trade it

    Grizzlies Podcast: Breaking down the Desmond Bane deal

    By Chris Herrington June 17, 2025
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Regional One’s billion-dollar modernization is ‘flawed vision for Memphis’

    “The assumption that services like trauma care, obstetrics and burn treatment cannot be relocated or integrated into other campuses is misleading. ... The real barrier isn’t logistics — it’s turf protection.”

    By Dr. Jeff Warren June 17, 2025
  • Premium Memphis Grizzlies

    Herrington: Grizzlies’ Desmond Bane trade invites opportunity and risk

    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: 

    Memphis trades Desmond Bane

    By Chris Herrington June 15, 2025
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Beware of Bitcoin ATM scams

    “The Federal Trade Commission says consumers reported losing $110 million to Bitcoin ATM fraud in 2023, a tenfold increase over 2020.”

    By Randy Hutchinson June 15, 2025
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: How will the images from Los Angeles shape the rising generation?

    “This week (today’s teenagers) saw the military apparatus of their country deployed against their fellow citizens under the guise of ‘serving and protecting.’”

    By Joshua Henry Narcisse June 15, 2025
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Jeff Warren’s new Regional One alternative ‘lacks practical merit’

    “The suggestion to bring all local health systems together to operate a single academic medical center is also not a viable option,” the Regional One Health president and CEO writes.

    By Reginald Coopwood June 13, 2025
  • Premium Memphis Grizzlies

    Herrington: Can the Grizzlies strike gold on the low-cost free agent market?

    A look at the guards and wing players that might be available in the Grizzlies’ price range.

    By Chris Herrington June 13, 2025
  • Premium Dan Conaway

    Conaway: Don’t play a game in Nashville. Don’t give Nashville a dime.

    Nashville — home to neither team — will benefit as much as either Memphis or Louisville. Who thought this was a good idea?

    By Dan Conaway June 13, 2025
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Mayor Young on xAI — ‘I’m choosing Memphis, not fear, not politics’

    Mayor Young says the xAI project “isn’t a debate between the environment and economics. It’s about putting people before politics. It’s about building something better for communities that have waited far too long for real investment.”

    By Paul Young June 12, 2025

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