Grizzlies Mailbag: Are the Grizzlies set up to take a step back?
Golden State Warriors forward Andrew Wiggins (22) and Memphis Grizzlies forward Jaren Jackson Jr. (13) vie for a rebound on May 13. Jackson’s injury is one of the questions swirling around the team’s future. (Tony Avelar/AP)
A few months after notching the NBA’s second best record, are the Grizzlies poised to take a step back? How will the team replace the injured Jaren Jackson Jr. In this mid-summer Grizzlies Mailbag, answers to those and other questions.
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Chris Herrington
Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.
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