Herrington: Road-trip woes highlight problems with Grizzlies offense
Sacramento Kings forward Domantas Sabonis (10) shoots over Memphis Grizzlies forward Xavier Tillman (2) in Sacramento’s 133-100 win over the Grizzlies Jan. 23 in California, cementing a three-game Memphis skid. Sabonis scored 14 points, but had only the fourth-most points in a game where six Kings hit double figures. (Randall Benton/AP file)
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.
The Grizzlies are 11-13 on the road this season. Over the past five seasons the only team to make the NBA Finals with a losing road record was the fifth-seeded 2020 Miami Heat, who got there via the chaos of the NBA’s COVID-spurred Orlando “bubble.”
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