Calkins: Morant makes Memphis magic
Grizzlies guard Ja Morant (middle) drives for a layup against Detroit’s Isaiah Stewart (left) and Cade Cunningham (right) on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Geoff Calkins
Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. He is host of "The Geoff Calkins Show" from 9-11 a.m. M-F on 92.9 FM. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.
It was a quiet Thursday at FedExForum. But Ja Morant is so incandescent, he makes every night a memory.
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