Calkins: Grizzlies win first playoff series since 2015. (But it won’t be their last.)
Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant smiles as he is interviewed after the Grizzlies defeat the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 6 of their first-round playoff series on Friday, April 29, 2022, in Minneapolis. (Andy Clayton-King/AP)
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 sent the Timberwolves packing. Now all they have to do is turn around and play the Golden State Warriors Sunday afternoon. Impossible? Nah. Not for a team that is wired to win.
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Calkins: It’s the playoffs, Memphis. Keep doing the (completely crazy) things you do.
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Calkins: Ja isn’t himself and the officiating stinks. So now it’s all up to the Grizz.
Five years after David Fizdale unleashed his “take that for data” rant, Taylor Jenkins ripped the officials after the Grizzlies lost Game 4 to the Timberwolves. Will it work? Let us hope. But it would help if Ja would get healthy, fast.
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