Calkins: On what could have been the last night for Gasol and Conley, ‘You just felt the love’
Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol looks on from the bench in the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Tuesday, Feb. 5, in Memphis. (Brandon Dill/Associated Press)
Geoff Calkins
Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. He is host of "The Geoff Calkins Show" from 9-11 a.m. M-F on 92.9 FM. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.
On a surreal night for Marc Gasol, Mike Conley and the Memphis Grizzlies, Conley put it best: "You just felt the love."
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