Tiger legend Joey Dorsey joins Minnesota Timberwolves coaching staff
Joey Dorsey, second from right, spent the back half of the 2022-23 season as a volunteer assistant for the Memphis Tigers on coach Penny Hardaway’s staff. Now he’s a coach for an NBA team. (Eric Gay/AP)
A little more than a year after his time as a volunteer assistant on coach Penny Hardaway’s staff at Memphis, Joey Dorsey is quickly climbing the coaching ladder.
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Parth Upadhyaya
Parth Upadhyaya covers the Memphis Tigers men’s basketball team. A Raleigh, N.C., native and a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Media and Journalism, Upadhyaya is a longtime college hoops junkie. Prior to joining The Daily Memphian in 2022, he covered high school sports in western Pennsylvania for the Beaver County Times and Penn State football for the Centre Daily Times.
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