Herrington: Gilyard, Biyombo are unlikely starters who’ve helped stabilize the Grizzlies
Memphis Grizzlies center Bismack Biyombo (18) celebrates an assist during the first half of the team's NBA basketball in-season tournament game against the Utah Jazz on Friday, Nov. 10, 2023, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Nikki Boertman)
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.
If you had been told, just after the Grizzlies were eliminated from the playoffs last spring, that the team would be starting Jacob Gilyard and Bismack Biyombo nine games into the following season, you might have guessed the season was going very poorly.
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