The Memphis Grizzlies have finalized their coaching staff for the 2024-25 season, adding four new coaches to head coach Taylor Jenkins’ bench. 

Grimes spent time in Memphis this summer while training for the fourth straight offseason with Tigers coach Penny Hardaway, once an arch-rival.

Memphis drafted the majority of its projected 2024-25 roster. This draft class will likely see its first action in a Grizzlies uniform this week as the NBA Summer League tips off Monday in Salt Lake City.

Tuomas Iisalo, 41, is known for running an imaginative offensive scheme, which has been the catalyst for his quick coaching rise.

Recent offensive rankings released by EA Sports and Phil Steele projections are two more reminders of how explosive the Memphis offense is expected to be this season.

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The Tennessee Sports Writers Association announced its 2024 TSWA All-State Boys and Girls track and field team, which includes several Memphis-area athletes.

The 6-foot and 160-pound prospect will help the Tigers replenish what will be lost from this year’s offensive roster.

New University of Memphis athletic director Ed Scott must juggle building his leadership team, raising money for stadium renovation and filling a vacant head coaching position with building corporate support, selling tickets and making critical NIL-related decisions.

Two tennis players from Lausanne and one from MUS and Hutchison were named to Tennessee Sports Writers Association’s all-state tennis team.

The Tigers hoped to land Peyton Joseph, a teammate of Antwann Hill Jr., who previously became the highest-rated quarterback to commit to Memphis, but the offensive lineman chose Florida State instead.

Lausanne’s Ghandour, The Daily Memphian’s Boys Soccer Player of the Year, heads a group of five players from Memphis named to the TSWA all-state team. 

Before the Memphis Redbirds game Wednesday against the Nashville Sounds, Memphis Grizzlies 2024 first-round pick Zach Edey and one of the Grizzlies second-round picks, Jaylen Wells, signed autographs. Wells also threw out the ceremonial first pitch. The Sounds won the game, 4-3, in 11 innings.

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After Wednesday’s game, the Redbirds will roll out the biggest fireworks show in AutoZone Park history. 

NBA Summer League is less than a week away. How many games can the top players expect to play?

Chasing dollars on the NIL trail is almost like a second job, even during the off season that should be a respite from the University of Memphis football coach’s crazy calendar.

Addie Graham, Charlee Smith, Jorja Wheeler and Brooke Harrison earn TSWA honors.

The Redbirds are led by one of the best pitching staffs in Triple-A and slugging first baseman Luken Baker, the franchise’s all-time home run leader. The team is hosting the biggest fireworks show in AutoZone Park history after Wednesday’s game. 

Wiseman averaged 7.1 points and 5.3 rebounds in 63 games — the most games he’s played in a season in his four years in the NBA so far — for the Detroit Pistons last season.

The matchup with Louisville will be three days after the Tigers host Tennessee at FedExForum on Dec. 18.

Now, “all options have been exhausted,” a source told The Daily Memphian of Mills’ quest to gain another season of eligibility. 

Daily Memphian’s Baseball Player of the Year Jack Hibbard from Arlington High and four players from Division II-AA were named to the TSWA all-state baseball team.

With power conference schools spending real dollars like Monopoly money since the onset of NIL, Quindell Johnson could have left Memphis for another school before his college career was done.

Jordan Cooper started at safety for the Panthers and recorded 20 tackles while helping the team to an 8-4 finish in 2023. He had signed to play at Culver-Stockton College in Missouri.

Amid a quiet start to NBA free agency, some notes and questions on where things stand with the Grizzlies. Will Luke Kennard be back? What does this roster need most?

With NIL becoming bigger and bigger — the disparity among how much each student-athlete is paid seems bound to grow wider and wider.