Calkins: Grizzlies tip off 20 years — and hopefully 20 more
Here’s to a Memphis Grizzlies’ future built around Ja Morant, the most gifted player who has ever worn a Grizzlies uniform. (Brandon Dill/Associated Press file)
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.
There is a lease provision that has to be dealt with, but right now there’s no reason Memphis and its touchstone can’t work things out.
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