Grizzlies accelerate youth movement with Ja Morant, Brandon Clarke
Mike Rodgers celebrates during a draft party at FedExForum on Thursday, June 20, as the Memphis Grizzlies select Murray State guard Ja Morant with the second overall pick in the 2019 NBA Draft. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
The Grizzlies got younger, faster and more athletic at the NBA Draft with guard Ja Morant and forward Brandon Clarke.
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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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