Penny Hardaway is out of words to motivate his players to buy into principles he’s preached for weeks.

It is time to vote for this week’s high school girls basketball player of the week. 

Standouts from Arlington, Bartlett, Bluff City, Fayette-Ware and Memphis Business Academy are up for consideration. Voting ends at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 15.

Here are the Tennessee Sports Writers Association’s All-State girls soccer team.

The Memphis Grizzlies rebounded from a loss to the Oklahoma City with a win over the Brooklyn Nets as the Ja Morant trade watch continues.

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Box Score: Grizzlies 103, Nets 98

Sunday may have been Ja Morant’s last appearance at FedExForum as a Grizzly. If so, it was a fittingly disappointing end. 

Jock Landale added 16 points and nine rebounds, and Santi Aldama had 15 points and eight rebounds in the Grizzlies' last game before their two-game series in Berlin and London.

Here is the box score for the Grizzlies’ game against the Nets at FedExForum on Sunday, Jan. 11. 

“There’s a major problem brewing elsewhere for the Memphis administration. It’s that the gap has been closed — it’s just the one that used to exist between Memphis basketball and the rest of the American Conference.”

Despite being led by 7-foot-1 big man Aaron Bradshaw’s career-high 21 points and five rebounds, Memphis was out-rebounded 46-29 and outscored on second-chance points 19-8.

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Box Score: Florida Atlantic 89, Memphis 78

Here is the box score for the Tigers’ game against Florida Atlantic in Boca Raton, Florida, on Sunday, Jan. 11. 

The Memphis Tigers land a local former four-star high school prospect out of the NCAA transfer portal. 

George Church of Houston High and two members of University High, Declan Murphy and Liana Nuckolls, are named to the Tennessee Sports Writers Association’s All-State cross country team.

The Tennessee Sports Writers Association’s All-State boys and girls golf teams includes several Memphis-area students.

Jason Semore followed Huff to Memphis from Southern Miss but is now expected to join Georgia Tech’s staff.

Two teams in particular seem like a reasonable partner in a Ja Morant deal, but do either have real interest? And who else on the Grizzlies roster could be in play at the NBA trade deadline?

A visit to FAU offers Memphis another chance to fix foundational issues.

Athletes from Bartlett, Central, Germantown, Lakeland Prep, Munford, Southwind and Whitehaven recognized by the Tennessee Sports Writers Association.

The Memphis Grizzlies forward said he never gets used to the difficult trade business of the NBA. 

One of the more dramatic days in Memphis Grizzlies franchise history ended with a demoralizing loss Friday night at FedExForum.

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Box score: Thunder 117, Grizzlies 116

The Thunder took the lead with 1:07 left in the fourth quarter and went on to win by one point.

Box score for the NBA game between the Memphis Grizzlies and the Oklahoma City Thunder at FedExForum on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026.

Tuomas Iisalo said Morant was out Friday night with the calf contusion, and said little else.

What’s seemingly broken up Ja Morant’s future with the Grizzlies? It wasn’t a gusher of off-court problems but a slow drip of on-court problems — and the pressures of money and time.

In September, Grizzlies general manager Zach Kleiman said the high-end outcomes needed Ja Morant to play at an All-NBA level. Thirty-seven games into the season, Morant has played 18 times and is averaging career lows in several categories.

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