Herrington: NBA preview, predicting the Grizzlies (and everyone else)
Memphis Grizzlies guard Marcus Smart is likely to hit the floor in the team’s last preseason game, against the Bucks Friday, Oct. 20, in Milwaukee. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian 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.
Despite the uncertainty around Philadelphia’s trade-me-now star James Harden and the scheduled delay of the Grizzlies’ own Ja Morant, this season arrives with less chaos and uncertainty than a year ago.
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