Grizzlies Draft Day Notebook: Roundups, reactions and more
Cedric Coward talks to media at the 2025 NBA basketball Draft Combine in Chicago, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Draft day is here, or the first of them anyway.
The NBA will conduct the first round of its annual rookie draft tonight, starting at 7 p.m. The second round will follow Thursday night at 7 p.m. Both nights will be televised on ESPN, with Wednesday’s first round also on ABC.
The Memphis Grizzlies currently have three picks in the draft: No. 16 in the first round and Nos. 48 and 56 in the second round.
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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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