Calkins: How do Dillon Brooks and the Grizzlies put an end to the laughter? That’s easy: Win.
Memphis Grizzlies forward Dillon Brooks, guard Desmond Bane and forward Jaren Jackson Jr. can stop a lot of the negative attention focused on the team by winning Game 4 Monday in Los Angeles. (AP File Photo/Andy Clayton-King)
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.
The Grizzlies talk too much and win too little. That’s the prevailing theory now, right? But there is an easy way to start to change that narrative: Beat the Lakers in Game 4.
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