Herrington: With Edey out, which centers could the Grizzlies target?
Memphis Grizzlies center Zach Edey, right, reaches for the ball over Golden State Warriors center Quinten Post during the first half of an NBA play-in tournament basketball game in San Francisco on April 15. (Jeff Chiu/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.
Memphis center Zach Edey had ankle surgery Tuesday, and the Grizzlies announced it with a little more timeline detail: Edey will be reevaluated in four months.
That would mean early-to-mid October, during NBA preseason. Even if a reevaluation is as positive as it can be, a player doesn’t return to action immediately. If Edey got an “all clear” at this reevaluation period, he’d likely still need at least a month to ramp up for game action, which would put his return a few weeks into the season. This is a best-case scenario.
This corresponds to the initial sense on the 7-foot-4, 305-pound Edey: He’s likely to miss the start of next season, but if recovery progresses well, the surgery wouldn’t cost him much of the season.
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