Herrington: Is Ja still basketball’s best young American player?
Best Young American Player is an unofficial title, and perhaps, for all his recent troubles, Memphis Grizzlies' Ja Morant can still claim it. (Jae C. Hong/AP Photo file)
Chris Herrington
Chris Herrington covers the Memphis Grizzlies and writes about Memphis culture, food, and civic life.
Morant’s now second NBA suspension, which will cost him the first 25 games of next season, risks an abdication of this conversational throne.
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