Grizzlies 25: Jonas Valanciunas had a big personality to match his big game
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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.
Maybe Memphis fans were primed to love Jonas Valanciunas.
The Grizzlies acquired Valanciunas from the Toronto Raptors in February 2019 as the primary return for franchise cornerstone Marc Gasol. If last man standing Mike Conley wouldn’t be sent out until the following summer, the Gasol trade signaled an official end of an era of Grizzlies basketball.
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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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