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Grizzlies 25: Santi Aldama brought familiar Spanish spice to team’s new recipe

By , Daily Memphian Updated: October 29, 2025 4:00 AM CT | Published: October 29, 2025 4:00 AM CT

This is the 25th season of the Grizzlies in Memphis. To commemorate the anniversary, “Grizzlies 25” will count down the greatest players in Memphis Grizzlies history throughout the season. 

Early in his sixth season in the NBA, and with the Memphis Grizzlies, Santi Aldama finds himself alone in the Venn diagram overlap of three franchise tendencies.

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Chris Herrington

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.


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